Dr. Manish Prateek did his Undergrad and Post Grad degree in the field of Computer Science from South West State University, (formerly known as Kursk State Technical University), Russia, in 1996. Since then he worked at different level in the IT industry in India as well as in Middle East.  He did his PhD in the area of Manufacturing & Robotics and was awarded the degree in the year 2007. In 2005 he took up his career into technical education and started as Associate Professor and Head, Dept. of Information Technology at GRIET Hyderabad and later became a full Professor at the age of 36. Currently he is working as Professor & Associate Dean at UPES, Dehradun.

His area of research includes Robotics and Automation, Image Processing and Patter Recognition, Cyber Security, Machine Vision etc. So far, more than 40 research papers have been published by him in different International Journals. He is also a recipient of “Lifetime Achievement Award” for his contribution in the field of education and research by the prestigious scientific society “Pentagram Research Centre”.  He is also a member at the prestigious “International Federation for Systems Research (IFSR), Austria.