Dr.Vinjamuri Narsimha Sastry is currently working as Professor at the Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT), Hyderabad (established by the Reserve Bank of India) and has more than 20 years of Research and Teaching experience. Prior to Joining IDRBT as Assistant Professor in November 1999, he has served as Senior Lecturer for 2 years and as Lecturer for 5 years in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Applications at the National Institute of Technology (formerly Regional Engineering College), Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu during 1993-1999. Dr.Sastry secured first class throughout his studies. He had his school studies at ADRA in West Bengal and Graduation with Honours in Mathematics from Ashutosh College, University of Calcutta, Kolkata. He got his Master of Science Degree in Mathematics from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur in 1987 and also from the same I.I.T., Kharagpur he was awarded Ph.D. Degree in 1994 for his work on "Optimization Methods for Control Problems of Deterministic and Fuzzy Models".

Main areas of his research interest are Operations Research, Multiple Criteria Decision Making, Quality of Service (QoS) based Network Routing Algorithms, Risk Modeling, Portfolio Optimization and Asset Liability Management, Access Control Models for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (MANET) and Banking Grid, Fuzzy Control, Mobile Payments and Feature Subset Selection. He has guided 3 Ph.D. scholars in the area of Fuzzy Control, Multi-objective Routing Algorithms and Grid Computing Security respectively and 4 Ph.D. students are currently working under his guidance in the areas of Authentication Techniques, Mobile Payments, Mobile Operating Systems and Feature Subset Selection methods. He has guided about 50 postgraduate projects (M.Tech., M.Sc., M.C.A., M.B.A. and PGPBTM.) and published above 50 research publications in Journals and Conferences of International repute. He is a recognized guide for Ph.D. students registered in (i) the Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Central University of Hyderabad, (ii) Department of Management Studies, Central University of Hyderabad, (iii) Department of Computer Science, Osmania University, Hyderabad (iv) Department of Mathematics, Bharathidasan University. He is a member of the Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Science, Osmania University and member, Board of Studies, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Osmania University, Hyderabad. He is a nominated member of the PRSG, MIT, GOI and Examiner of Post Graduate Research of elite Institutes.

Dr.Sastry is a Co-founder and Executive Secretary of the Mobile Payment Forum of India (MPFI). As a technical member he has contributed in the development of Technical Standards for Financial Inclusion, IBA-UIDAI Micro-ATM standard, Interoperability Standards for Mobile Payments, Security Standards for Mobile Payments, Development of RFP for RTGS System, Risk Management RFP for DEIO,RBI, E-Learning Technologies for RBI, Software Architecture Standard for Banks, Design of syllabus of the joint M.Tech.(IT) programme of the University of Hyderabad and IDRBT and PGPBTM of IDRBT etc.

He has visited UK, Canada, USA(thrice), Australia, Brazil, South Africa etc. and delivered invited Lectures in several leading Institutions & Universities abroad and in India. He has initiated and conducted several short-term programmes on Financial Risks and Asset Liability Management (FRALM), Wireless Technologies and Mobile Payments (WitMoB), Quantitative Techniques for Banking and Financial Applications (QTBFA), Software Engineering; Web based Learning, Network Technologies, etc. He has reviewed research papers of technical Journals and International Conferences such as EJOR, JOTA, Mathematical Reviews, CIT, ICDCIT, J-IISC etc. He is a member of Professional Societies IEEE, CSI, MCDM, ISTE, MPFI etc. He has co-ordinated various consultancy, research and academic assignments including PGPBTM and M.Tech.(IT). He has passion for Music, and application of Mathematics, Optimization and Control Techniques in real life, and enabling affordable technologies to reach common man's banking and educational services.