Amit Kumar Tyagi is Assistant Professor (Senior Grade), and Senior Researcher at Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Chennai Campus, India.

He earned his PhoD. in 2018 from Pondicherry Central University, India. He joined the Lord Krishna College of Engineering, Ghaziabad (LKCE) from 2009-2010, and 2012-2013. He was an Assistant Professor and Head - Research, Lingaya's Vidyapeeth (formerly known as Lingaya's University), Faridabad, Haryana, India in 2018-2019. His current research focuses on Machine Learning with Big data, Blockchain Technology, Data Science, Cyber Physical Systems, Smart and Secure Computing and Privacy. He has contributed to several projects such as "AARIN" and "P3- Block" to address some of the open issues related to the privacy breaches in Vehicular Applications (such as Parking) and Medical Cyber Physical Systems (MCPS). He has published more than 8 patents in the area of Deep Learning, Internet of Things, Cyber Physical Systems and Computer Vision. He was recently awarded best paper award for paper titled "A Novel Feature Extractor Based on the Modified Approach of Histogram of oriented Gradient", ICCSA 2020, Italy (Europe). He is a regular member of the ACM, IEEE, MIRLabs, Ramanujan Mathematical Society, Cryptology Research Society, and Universal Scientific Education and Research Network, CSI and ISTE.