Dr. Vivek Tiwari is Professor Incharge (Department of Data Science and AI) and faculty in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIIT-Naya Raipur, C. G. India. He received the B.Eng. Degree (Comp. Sci. & Engg.) from the Rajiv Gandhi Technical University, Bhopal, in 2004, and the M.Tech. degree (Comp. Sci. & Engg.) from SATI, Vidisha (MP) in 2008. He has obtained Ph.D. degree from the National Institute of Technology, Bhopal (MA-NIT), India in 2015 in the area of Data mining and warehousing. Earlier, he has professional work experience with industries like NIC Delhi, Caresoft Incorporation (based at Middlesex, NJ, USA) as Software Engineer, and with an academic institute also.

Dr. Tiwari is a recipient of the Young Scientist Fellowship (MPYSC_2014_814) for the year 2014-2016 by the MPCST (Madhya Pradesh Council of Science & Technology), Govt. of M.P. He has handled 8 external projects (worth more than 1 crore) sponsored by agencies like Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), IIT Bombay, MHRD India, National Project Implementation Unit (NPIU) Delhi, Agriculture University, CG. Dr. Tiwari also gives his services in consultancy, currently handling three consultancy projects of worth Rs. 20 crores with the Government of Chhattisgarh

He is an active member of various professional societies, recently elected as Chair Newsletter committee IEEE MP Section, and as vice-president, Computer Society of India (CSI), Raipur (CG.) chapter for the year 2021-22. Dr. Tiwari has successfully organized three reputed International conferences sponsored by IEEE and Springer. He has shown his interest to conduct various Faculty Development Programs (FDP) funded by external agencies. He has received around 27 lakhs for organizing such more than 20 workshops. Dr. Tiwari has developed and established various labs (Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning Lab (AIDL), Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS) Lab, IoT lab, Data Science lab, and Computer Programing lab) of worth 3.5 crores in IIIT Naya Raipur.

Dr. Tiwari has published research work (more than 65) in various reputed journals such as IEEE Transactions, Elsevier, Springer, conferences, etc. Two edited books, one Indian patent and one international patent are in his credit. His current research interest is in Machine/Deep Learning, Data Mining, Pattern Recognition, Business Analytics, Data Warehousing.