Narasimha Rao Vajjhala is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture at the University of New York Tirana, Albania. He is a senior member of ACM and IEEE He is the Chair of the ACM Yola Professional chapter and the faculty adviser for the AUN-ACM Student Chapter. He has over 18 years of experience in teaching mainly programming and database-related courses at both graduate and undergraduate level in Europe and Africa. He has edited a peer-reviewed book, published 2 monographs, 9 peer-reviewed book chapters, 15 refereed international conference proceedings, 15 peer-reviewed journal articles, and one review article. He has also worked as a consultant in technology firms in Europe and has experience participating in an EU-funded project. He has supervised several undergraduate senior design projects and graduate theses. He has completed a Doctorate in Information Systems and Technology (United States); holds a Master of Science in Computer Science and Applications (India), and a Master of Business Administration with specialisation in Information Systems (Switzerland), and an undergraduate degree in Computer Science (India).