Sumit Kumar Pandey is a PhD (2015) from Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata. He was a post-doctoral fellow from February 2016 to April 2017 with Prof. Thomas Peyrin in the School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences and from August 2017 to December 2017 with Prof. Anupam Chattopadhyay in the School of Computer Science and Engineering, both at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore.

His research interest is in Cryptography. He holds a Masters Degree in Mathematics from IIT Bombay and a Master of Technology in Computer Science from ISI Kolkata. He has worked as an Assistant Professor also at CR RAO AIMSCS, Hyderabad from September 2012 until March 2015.