Basant Agarwal is working as an assistant professor in the department of computer science and engineering at Indian Institute of Information Technology Kota (IIIT-Kota), MNIT Campus, Jaipur, India. He is also affiliated as visiting Research Fellow at the Department of Computer Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway. He has more than 10 years of experience in research and teaching. He has worked as PostDoc Research Fellow at NTNU, Norway under prestigious Fellowship by ERCIM (European Research Consortium for Informatics and. Mathematics) through “Alain Bensoussan Fellowship Programme” in 2016. He has also worked as Research Scientist at Temasek Laboratories, National University of Singapore (NUS) Singapore. He has authored two books on the topic of sentiment analysis in Springer Book Series: Socio-Affective Computing series and another on Data structures for Packt Publisher, UK. He has published more than 50 reputed conferences and Journal. Dr. Agarwal is editing books for reputed publisher such as Springer, Elsevier, Taylor & Francis, IGI Global, and also managing many special issues for reputed Journals. Dr. Agarwal is also serving as a senior member, technical program committee member, member of editorial board/reviewer board of various renowned international conferences/journals such as Knowledge-based Systems, IEEE Intelligent Systems, Information Processing & Management to name a few.