Dr. M. Vijaya Prabhagar is an Assistant Professor of IT systems and Analytics at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Jammu. Before joining IIM Jammu, he worked as an Assistant Professor at SRM University Andhra Pradesh. He received his Doctoral degree in Data Analytics and Machine Learning from the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli. He also holds an M.E. degree in Industrial Engineering from Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai, Tamilnadu. He is a passionate academician and researcher in Machine learning and Deep Learning, with more than two years of accomplished experience in teaching and research. His research interests predominantly revolve around the Performance Improvement of Advanced Machine learning Techniques like Self-Organizing Map (SOM), Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), Random Forest, Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) and Rough k-means Clustering. He has published research articles in reputed international journals like Neural Computing and Applications, Soft Computing, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Benchmarking: An International Journal and Business Process Management.