A.K. Sharma is currently Chairman, Department of Computer Engineering, and Dean of Faculty, Engineering and Technology at YMCA University of Science and Technology, Faridabad. He is also a member of the Board of Studies committee of Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak. He has guided 10 Ph.D. theses and has published about 215 research papers in national and international journals of repute. He heads a group of researchers actively working on the design of different types of ‘Crawlers'.