Dr. Mahesh Kumar Panda completed his Ph. D. from the Department of Statistics, University of Delhi in the field of Design and Analysis of Experiments. He has about fifteen years of experience in academics, research, and administration. He was a recipient of a Scholarship under the Euphrates Erasmus Mundus project in Europe and worked at the Faculty of Mathematics and informatics at Vilnius University, Lithuania in 2016. He also visited Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata as a Visiting Scientist during the academic year 2017. His teaching interest lies in the Measure Theory, Design and Analysis of Experiments, Machine Learning, Statistical Inference, Statistical Simulation, and Multivariate Analysis. His current research interests are focused on investigating optimal designs for models with mixture experiments, polynomial regression models, and generalized linear models. He is very active in developing robust code using programming languages such as R/Python/Matlab/Scilab to find a solution for various real-life problems using appropriate statistical or mathematical tools.