He is a Ph.D. from the National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, Punjab, India. He also holds an MTech (CSE) from the National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, Punjab, India, and a BTech (CSE) from Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kerala, India. He has 15 years of exposure in the industry, corporate training, and academia. Previously, he worked at Graphic Era Deemed to be University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India. He worked in the Blockchain and Cyber Security specialization at Graphic Era Deemed to be University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India, and taught courses at the Graduate, Post Graduate, and Doctoral levels. During his Ph.D. tenure, he had an opportunity to work on security protocol development for authentication and confidential authentication with the support of Ben Lunn from Stanford University. Prior to that, he worked as Technical Training head at Galgotias University, Industry Interface coordinator at NIIT University, Lecturer at Lovely Professional University, and Software developer at Aricent Technologies Pvt ltd., and Corporate Trainer with different IT corporates. 

His research work is broadly in the area of Blockchain, Cyber Security, Cryptography, and Machine Learning for security. His teaching interest is Big data for Business operations, Big Data management, Emerging Technologies, Blockchain, Cyber Security, and Machine learning for business operations. 
 

• Manoj Kumar, Harsh Kumar Verma, and Geeta Sikka, “A secure lightweight signature-based authentication for Cloud-IoT crowdsensing environments”, Published in Journal titled, “Transactions on Emerging telecom technologies” in 2018. (SCI)
• Manoj Kumar, Harsh Kumar Verma, and Geeta Sikka, “A Secure and Authentic Data Transmission Protocol for Cloud-assisted Edge-IoT Environment”, Published in Journal titled, “Transactions on Emerging telecom technologies” in 2020. (Impact factor: 1.531) (SCI)
• Umang Kumar, Santosh Kumar, Manoj Kumar, “An Intelligent and Hybrid model for Investigation and Classification of IoT botnet”, Accepted in International Journal of Computer Network and Information Security(IJCNIS) April 2023, ISSN: 2074-9104, DOI: 10.5815/ijcnis (Scopus indexed)   
• Umang Kumar, Santosh Kumar, Manoj Kumar, “INFRDET: IoT Network Flow Regularizer-based Detection and Classification of IoT Botnet”, Accepted in International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing, Inderscience Publisher, in April 2023. (Scopus indexed)
• Maurya, Sandeep; Kumar, Santosh; Garg, Umang; Kumar, Manoj, “An Efficient Framework for Detection and Classification of IoT Botnet Traffic”, Accepted in ECS Sensors Plus Journal, IOP Publishing Ltd, 21 June 2022. https://doi.org/10.1149/2754-2726/ac7abc

• Manoj Kumar, Harsh Kumar Verma, Shantibala Singh (Dec 2013), “A (m, m)VCS with consistent size reconstruction using full binary tree”, ICCIC 2013. (Best Paper Award) (Scopus Index)
• Ujjwal Shrivastava, Manoj Kumar, Santosh Kumar (June 2023),” An Autoencoder-based Efficient Scheme for DDoS Detection”, IC2E3 2023. (Scopus Index)
• Tejveer Singh, Manoj Kumar, Santosh Kumar (May 2023),” An Efficient Hybrid Technique for Phishing Detection”, Eleventh International Conference on Contemporary Engineering and Technology published in conference. (Scopus Indexed)
• Ujjwal Shrivastava, Manoj Kumar, Santosh Kumar (May 2023),” An unsupervised deep learning model for anomaly detection”, Eleventh International Conference on Contemporary Engineering and Technology, Chennai, India. (Scopus Indexed)
• Tejveer Singh, Manoj Kumar, Santosh Kumar (June 2023),” Enhancing Phishing Website Detection using Particle Swarm Optimization and Feature Selection Techniques”, IEE World Conference on Applied Intelligence and Computing. (Scopus Indexed)
• U. Garg, S. Kumar, M. Kumar, "A Hybrid Approach for the Detection and Classification of MQTT-based IoT-Malware (March 2023)," 2023 International Conference on Sustainable Computing and Data Communication Systems (ICSCDS), Erode, India, 2023, pp. 1154-1159, doi: 10.1109/ICSCDS56580.2023.10104820. (Scopus Indexed)                                             
• S. Kumar, A. Gueroudji, V. Tripathi, S. Maurya, and Manoj. K (June 2022), “An Efficient Approach for Intrusion Detection Using System Call Traces”, 4th International Conference on Communication and Information Processing (ICCIP). (Scopus Indexed)                                                                                  
   

• Manoj Kumar, Harsh Kumar Verma, and Geeta Sikka, “Study of various signature-based authentication schemes for cloud data storage”, communicated in the journal titled,” International Journal of Adhoc and ubiquitous Computing” in August 2022. 
• Manoj Kumar, “A meticulous analysis of security breaches and attacks on hypervisors in a cloud environment”, communicated in the journal titled,” International Journal of Adhoc and ubiquitous computing” in November 2022.
• Manoj Kumar, “An Efficient Signcryption protocol for secure communication on the Internet of Energy”, communicated in the journal titled, “Transactions on Emerging Telecom Technologies” in Jan 2023.
• Manoj Kumar, “Different Signcryption schemes for cloud-based critical infrastructures”, communicated in the journal titled, “Security and Communication Networks” in Nov 2022.
• Ujjwal Shrivastava, Manoj Kumar, Santosh Kumar,” An Autoencoder-based Efficient Scheme for DDoS Detection”, communicated in a journal titled “Computer and Security”, Elsevier on 10th Feb 2023.
• Tejveer Singh, Manoj Kumar, Santosh Kumar,” Walkthrough Phishing Detection Techniques”, communicated in a journal titled “Computer and Electrical Engineering”, Elsevier on 9th April 2023.
   

• On the topic of “Digital Image Processing and Computer Vision” from 20-23rd June 2011 in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Lovely Professional University.
• On the topic of “Cyber Security and Information Assurance” from 09-11th May 2015 by the Centre of Excellence for Cyber Systems and Information Assurance of IIT Delhi.
• On the topic “Cyber Security and Digital forensic” from 26-30th August 2021 organized by the Department of Computer Science Aligarh Muslim University.
• On the domain of Data Science from 04-08th October 2021 organized by the AICTE training and learning Academy.
   

• Active member of IEEE community
• Active member of ACM community
• Reviewer of several reputed Sci/Scopus Journals.