Omkar Bibhishan Bhalekar

Omkar Bibhishan Bhalekar is an Assistant Professor at KJ College of Engineering Research and Management, Pune with over three years of combined industry and academic experience. He holds an M.Tech. and pursuing Ph.D. in a computing-focused discipline. His expertise lies in Artificial Intelligence and Cloud Computing, with interests in scalable intelligent systems, machine learning, distributed computing, and cloud-native architectures.

He has published six papers in reputed international and Scopus-indexed journals and actively participates in FDPs, STTPs, and NPTEL programs. His teaching emphasizes outcome-based education, critical thinking, and real-world problem-solving, aiming to bridge theoretical knowledge with practical, industry-relevant applications.