Deepa Shenoy is currently working as professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, Bangalore University, Bangalore, India. She did her Doctorate in the area of Data Mining from Bangalore University in the year 2005. Her areas of research include Data Mining, Soft Computing, Biometrics and Social Media Analysis. She has awarded 9 PhDs and published more than 150 papers in refereed International Conferences and Journals. She was a WIE chair of Bangalore section from 2010 to 2014 and SAC Chair from 2015 to 2016. She is a recipient of Outstanding Branch Counsellor award from Bangalore Section for the year 2011 and MGA Outstanding Branch Counsellor award for the year 2016.