Dr. Muhammad Shafi is presently Assoc. professor and HoD @ NIT Calicut in School of Management Studies, He has completed his Doctoral Studies (Ph.D.) in Management from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh in 2008. He has started his career as Lecturer in NIT in 2009 and having 12 years of experience in academia, administration and research. He has many papers in his credit, guided three Ph.D and many projects and two doctoral students pursuing Ph.D. under him. He has also conducted more than a dozen workshops for academicians and administrative personals during his 15 years of service in NITC. His works are majorly published in the following journals: PLOS-ONE, International Journal of Data Mining, Cogeant Management Journal, Intentional Journal of Modeling and Management (IJDMMM), Network Science Journal, Cambridge University Press, Quality Management Journal, Journal of King Saud University- Computer and Information Sciences and Data (MDPI). He has presented papers in various indexed international conferences during his one and a half decade of experience in academia.