Sunita Vikrant Dhavale, presently associated with Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT), an autonomous institute under Ministry of Defence, Pune, as an Assistant Professor in Department of Computer Engineering. She received her M.E. (Computer Science and Engineering) from the Pune University in 2009 and PhD (Computer Science and Engineering) from DIAT University in 2015. She is EC-Council’s Certified Ethical Hacker (C|EH-v9), 2017. She is recipient of IETE M. N. Saha Memorial Award for her paper published in IETE Journal of Research and Outstanding Woman Achiever Award from Venus International Foundation. She is an author for the book titled Advanced Image-Based Spam Detection and Filtering Techniques, published by IGI Global in 2017. She was selected as one of the top performers in four weeks AICTE approved Faculty Development Program on ICT tools by IIT, Bombay in September 2016. She has more than 25 publications in international journals, international conference proceedings, and book chapter. Her research areas are cyber security, steganography, malware analysis, and multimedia forensics. She organized first uniquely aimed National Conference on Electronics and Computer Engineering (NCECE - 2016) with the theme: Defence Applications in DIAT from 21st-22nd Jan 2016. She worked as a project manager for campus-wide wi-fi project implementation for higher research and education in DIAT in 2012. She emphasized on active learning strategy like think-pair-share and flipped classroom approach in her classroom by creating open educational resources for her teaching subjects. She arranged several seminars, workshops, hands-on, presentation, debates, quizzes for providing the additional resources to MTech students and course improvement. She is member of many professional bodies including IEEE, ACM, ISTE, IETE, IAENG, and ISACA.