Vishal A. Thakor is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in lightweight cryptography to improve security in resource-constrained IoT devices from Teesside University, U.K. He is also working as a part-time Lecturer with Teesside University. He is having more than ten years of teaching and around more than two years of industrial experience. Along with his passion to teach, he loves coding using C/C++, VB, C#, and Python. His areas of research interests include information security, cyber security, computer networks, algorithm design, data structure, the Internet of Things, and also Web designing. He is a lifetime member of Computer Society of India (CSI), India.