Nischay Purnekar received his B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering from SRM University, India. He received his MSc with honors in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering in the Department of Information Engineering and Mathematics at the University of Siena (UNISI), Siena with a Thesis in the field of Machine Learning titled "Authentication of printed patterns by means of Siamese Neural Networks for Anti-Counterfeiting applications".

He is a PhD candidate at the University of Siena under the supervision of Prof. Mauro Barni. His research interests include Deep Learning, Machine Learning in Adversarial approaches, Multimedia Forensics. He is a member of Visual Information Processing and Protection (VIPP) lab.