Dr. Chandra Shekhar Nishad is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Science, Humanities and Management (SHM). Prior to joining IIIT-NR, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics, School of Technology, Pandit Deendayal Energy University (PDEU) Gandhinagar, India. He has completed M.Sc. (Mathematics & Computing) from IIT Guwahati in 2009 and M.Tech. (Industrial Mathematics & Scientific Computing) from IIT Madras in 2012. He has completed his Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics from IIT Kharagpur under the supervision of Prof. G.P Raja Sekhar in 2019. He has received DAAD Scholarship (DAAD IIT Master Sandwich Program) for doing M.Tech. Dissertation at Technical University Darmstadt Germany in 2011. He was the batch topper in M.Tech. (Industrial Mathematics & Scientific Computing) at IIT Madras. He has published more than 40 research papers in journals and conference proceedings of international repute. Currently, he is supervising 3 Ph.D. students. He has also served as reviewer of papers/articles of many reputed international journals and conferences.