Rajanikanth Aluvalu (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in cloud computing as specialization. He is currently working as Professor and Head, Department of IT, Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, India. Formerly, he held positions, including Professor and Head, Department of CSE, Vardhaman College of Engineering, Hyderabad, Volunteered IEEE as Vice-Chair of the Entrepreneurship and Startup Committee, Treasurer and Secretary of the IEEE Computer Society, Hyderabad Section. He is having more than 20 years of teaching experience. He organized various international conferences and delivered keynote addresses. He published more than 100 research papers in various peer-reviewed journals and conferences. He is a Life Member of ISTE and a member of ACM and MIR Labs. He was a recipient of the Best Advisor Award from the IEEE Hyderabad Section as well as the IUCEE Faculty Fellow Award (2018). He an Editorial board member of IJDMMM journal published by Inderscience. He guest edited various books with springer, CRC Press, IGI Global and De Gruyter Publishers. He is reviewer for several SCI, Scopus indexed journals.