V. N. Sastry (Member, IEEE) received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. He is currently working as a Professor with the Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT), Hyderabad, India. His research and teaching interests include operations research, multiple objective network optimization, security models, mobile computing, mobile payments, mobile governance, fuzzy optimization and fuzzy control, financial engineering, asset liability management, and portfolio optimization.