Dr. Shishir Kumar Shandilya is the Deputy Director of SECURE – Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security at VIT Bhopal University. He is a Visiting Professor at Liverpool Hope University-United Kingdom. He worked as a Principal Consultant to the Govt. of India for Technology Development and Assessment in Cyber Security. He also held the position of Executive Director of the National Cyber Defense Research Centre, New Delhi. He achieved the higher-doctorate degree (Doctor of Science) on 'Nature-inspired Cyber Security (NICS)'. He is a Cambridge University Certified Professional Teacher and Trainer, TEDx Speaker, ACM Distinguished Speaker, and a Senior Member of IEEE. He is a NASSCOM Certified Master Trainer for Security Analyst SOC (SSC/Q0909: NVEQF Level 7) and an Academic Advisor to National Cyber Safety and Security Standards, New Delhi. He has received the IDA Teaching Excellence Award for distinctive use of technology in Teaching by the Indian Didactics Association, Bangalore (2016) and the Young Scientist Award for two consecutive years, 2005 and 2006, by the Indian Science Congress and MP Council of Science and Technology. He has ten books published by Springer Nature-Singapore, IGI-USA, River-Denmark, and Prentice Hall of India. His recently published book is 'Advances in Nature-Inspired Cyber Security and Resilience' by Springer and his research paper on Cybertwin is recently published in IEEE Transactions having an impact factor of 10.2. He has international and national patents and copyrights granted on NICS and Adaptive Cyber Defense Methods.