Dr. Abha Sharma earned her Ph.D. from MANIT (NIT Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh) in 2016. She has a master’s in Computer Applications from RGPV University, Bhopal and graduated in science from Barkatullah University. She is having almost 10 years of experience in teaching/research. She has worked as an Assistant Professor at MANIT Bhopal and as Associate Professor at Chandigarh University, Mohali, Punjab. She has earned research experiences of 5 Years from the Advanced Material and Processes Research Institute (AMPRI, Bhopal) as a Project Assistant. Her research topic for her doctoral degree was clustering models for categorical data using optimization algorithms. Further in this area she worked and was awarded Madhya Pradesh Young Scientist Award-2016 in Computer Science and Engineering at the 31 st M.P Young Scientist congress, organized by the M.P council of science and technology (MPCST), Vigyan Bhawan, Bhopal. She also published a few research papers in her relevant area in SCOPUS, Web of Science, and reputed international journals. She has undergone MPCST-sponsored one-month training from NIT Calicut in the area of Optimization Algorithms. She is also a part of a few reputed Journals as a reviewer.