Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, CMR Technical Campus, Hyderabad, India.

Raj Kumar Patra currently works as professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at CMR Technical Campus, Hyderabad. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from Dr. C V Raman University, Bilaspur, India. He obtained his M. Tech. (CTA) from SSCET, Bhilai, Chhattisgarh, India and B. E. (Computer Science) from Karnataka University, Dharwad, India. He has 20 years of teaching and research experience. He has published more than 40 research articles in reputed peer-reviewed national and international journals and conferences. He has contributed 7 chapters in various edited books with reputed publishers like Elsevier, Springer, CRC Press etc. He is an active reviewer and editor of various reputed journals. He has delivered more than 10 Keynote/Invited Talks and Chaired many Technical Sessions in International Conferences. Dr. Patra is supervising one PhD scholar. He is a member of various National and International Professional Societies. His research interests include Biometrics, Patten Recognition, Image Processing, Deep Learning, Computer Vision and Machine Learning. He is the recipient of many awards and recognitions at the national level.