Aashish Vivekanand, is an Android Security Expert & National Technical Committee Member from NCDRC. He is a Computer Science engineer from Anna University, Chennai. He spent a lot of time working on several projects contributing to open source Android, Internet of Things (IoT) and Cyber-security projects. Google offered him scholarships twice in partnership with Udacity for Android Developer Nanodegree program and Front-End Web Developer program. After completion of the Nanodegree, he was also selected for the pioneer course on Self-Driving car engineer Nanodegree program with Mercedes-Benz. He has received first prize consecutively for two years 2015 & 2016 from the CII (Confederation of Indian Industry) Connect Hackathon; Dr.Abdul Kalam Young achiever award from World Youth Federation, and winner at the Daimler Mobile App Garage and also other national events. He represented India in CAMME 2017, Bangkok conducted by Thammasat university and had presented his ideas on “Inventory Transparency For Agricultural Produce Through IOT”.

He was appalled for the violation of proprietary rights with massive copying of online content and built an Android application called Smart Learning which stops playing streaming content if any intrusion is detected by services or other application. This project won the all India first prize at the Cyber-Security Hackathon conducted by US Consulate Chennai and Learning Links in 2016. He has also presented a DNS Tweaks program that could be used at home to improve child safety during the launch of “Online Child Safety and Security Report India” by UNICEF. The idea was well received, much appreciated and tweeted by the Chief UNICEF Representative for India. He mentored student teams in "The State of World's children 2017" by UNICEF on various cybersecurity topics to bring an awareness among school students.