S.I. Humayun is currently working as a Professor at Centre for South Asian Studies, UNESCO Madanjeet Singh Institute of South Asia Regional Cooperation, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India. He completed his post-graduation and Doctoral Degree in Defence and Strategic Studies from the Department of Defence and Strategic Studies, University of Madras, Chennai, India. His areas of teaching are peace and conflict studies, regional cooperation, maritime security issues and environmental politics.

During his doctoral research, he was selected to attend the prestigious Summer Workshop organised by the Regional Centre for Strategic Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka, on the theme of “Defense, Technology and Cooperative Security in South Asia”. Having sixteen years of experience in research and teaching in security studies, he has published thirty-plus papers and guided fifty-plus postgraduate theses and five doctoral scholars on various themes of South Asian politics. He is a member of the board of studies for Defence and Strategic Studies of various universities.

Maritime Affairs, Non-Traditional Security Issues and South Asian Security Affairs