Ankur Kanaujiya is Assistant Professor at the Department of Mathematics, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Odisha, India. After completing his Ph.D. in the area of computational finance, he joined Birla Institute of Technology Mesra, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India, under the Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (TEQIP) III before he moved to his current position. Dr. Kanaujiya has worked extensively in the areas of computational and applied mathematics with an emphasis on finance.