Santosh Kumar is currently working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Dr. SPM IIIT Naya Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India, since January 2017. He has completed his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT (B.H.U.) Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, in 2018. He has presented and published over 30 research papers in reputed journals and various national and top tier international conferences. His research interests includes animal biometrics, computer vision, and pattern recognition, machine learning, and Image processing.