Ekbal Rashid, he is working as an Associate Professor in the Deptt. of Computer Science and Engineering with Aurora’s Technological and Research Institute, Uppal, Hyderabad. He received his M.Tech in Computer Science in year 2009 from BIT, Mesra and his Ph.D in Computer Science and Engineering in May 2015 from Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan University (Deemed University), Bhubaneswar, Orissa. Dr. Rashid has more than 30 International and National publications in journals and conference proceedings of repute including Springer, IEEE, Inderscience. His research area is software engineering, machine learning, data mining and artificial intelligence. Dr. Rashid has written two books on the topic of “Analogy-Based Software Cost Estimation” published by Advance Academic Publisher, India and “Enhancing Software Fault Prediction with Machine Learning: Emerging Research and Opportunities” that has been published by IGI Global, USA sep 2017. He has more than fifteen years of teaching experience in various reputed Institutes/Universities across the country.