Dr. Ashoka S. B. is working as a Chairman of Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, Maharani Cluster University, Bengaluru. He has vast teaching and industry experience spreading over two decades at Undergraduate/Post graduate level. He has authored more than 28 research papers in reputed international journals and peer reviewed conference papers at international and national levels. His research interest includes Image Processing, Network Security, Computational Mathematics and Natural Language Processing. He is the Chairman for the Board of Studies in Computer Science of Bengaluru North University, Maharani Cluster University. He is a Board of Studies Member in Computer Science for Karnataka State Open University, Mysore, Bengaluru North University, and St. Joseph University. He is the Chairman for Board of Examiners in Computer Science of Bangalore University, Bengaluru City University, Bengaluru North University, Mandya University and Maharani Cluster University. He has conducted Ph.D. viva voce examinations of various Universities across the country. He has authored many computer science books by various publishers. He has delivered many lectures at various conferences at national and international level. He has three Indian and two Australian granted patents. He is a coordinator for UGC sponsored ten lakh projects entitled "Network with Netsim".