Professor V. Sree Hari Rao is the Director and Principal Research Scientist of the Foundation for Scientific Research and Technological Innovation, Hyderabad, India. He had obtained his Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. Professor Rao is a Fellow of several learned academies, which include National Academy of Sciences, India, Forum D’ Analystes, and the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers of India.

Professor Rao has made fundamentally significant contributions in nonlinear dynamical systems, predictive mathematical modelling in Science, Engineering, and Medicine, neural networks and machine learning, and knowledge discovery and data mining. He has also made many important contributions in the application domains, such as aerospace engineering systems, banking technologies, insurance and finance, modelling in biology and medicine, health care technologies, and associative and evolutionary technologies. The Software package, entitled “VB Classif 1.0 -- A novel classification tool for the control of vector borne diseases”, was developed by Professor Rao and Dr. USN Murty. Due to the multidisciplinary research activities, he served many leading Universities and Academic and Research Institutions in India, USA, Canada, and held the following academic titles : Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, Professor of Material Science and Engineering, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Distinguished Professor of Information Science & Technology, Distinguished Professor of Electronics and Communication Engineering, and Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering.