Venkata Krishna Parimala

Dr. Venkata Krishna Parimala is currently a Professor of Computer Science and the Director of University Rankings at Sri Padmavati Mahila Visvavidyalayam, Tirupati, India. He received his BTech in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, India; an MTech in Computer Science and Engineering from Regional Engineering College (REC), Calicut, India; and a PhD from VIT University, Vellore, India. Dr. Krishna has several years of experience working in academia, research, teaching, consultancy, academic administration, and project management roles. His current research interests include mobile and wireless systems, data science, explainable artificial intelligence (XAI), machine learning, and cloud computing. He is the recipient of several academic and research awards, such as the Cognizant Best Faculty Award for 2009–2010 and the 2021 Best Researcher Award from Sri Padmavati Mahila University. Recently, Prof. Krishna was listed among the top 2% of scientists in the world by Stanford University, USA, in 2021. He has authored over 250 research papers in various national and international journals and conferences. He has delivered several keynote addresses and chaired sessions in reputed conferences. He is a senior member of several professional societies, such as the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Computer Society of India (CSI), Institution of Engineers (India) (IE(I)), and others.