Dr Vinod Kumar Shukla is currently working with Amity University, Dubai, U.A.E., as Associate Professor and Head of Academics for the Engineering Architecture and Interior Design department. He has more than 15 years of experience. He has completed his PhD in “Semantic Web and Ontology” and is an active member of IEEE. He has appeared in the prestigious Stanford's list, USA of top 2% of scientists for in 2022. He has authored 100+ research publications in journals, book chapters and Conferences, and have 500+ plus Scopus citations. He has edited books in the field of Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Industry 4.0 and Healthcare, and People Analytics. He is the recipient of various awards such as the “Global Academic Excellence Award- 2021”, “Faculty Achievement Award” under the category of research publication in continuous two years 2021, 2022, “Best Paper Award” in the International Conference on Machine Intelligence and Data Science Application- 2020”. His research area includes cyber security, the Internet of Things, and Blockchain. Currently, he is working on the books and exploring the transition of technologies and their possible impact from Industry 4.0 to Industry 5.0.