Divakar Yadav is presently working as an Associate Professor at NIT, HAMIRPUR, Gorakhpur. Prior to Join MMMUT he worked at Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida from 2005 to 2016 as Associate Professor. He did his B.Tech. in Computer Sc. & Engg., M.Tech. in Information Technology, PhD in Computer Science & Engineering. He spent one year 2011-2012 at University of Carlos-III as Post Doc Fellow. He guided 4 PhD scholars and 17 M.Tech. dissertations. His research interests are Information Retrieval, Soft-computing, Machine Learning and Data Mining. He published more than 70 research papers in reputed International journals and conferences. He is also reviewer/committee member of various International Journals and Conferences.