Dr. Rama Rao Karri working as Sr. Assistant Professor in Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Brunei (UTB), Brunei Darussalam. He has obtained his PhD in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi (Top Institute in India), Masters from IIT Kanpur, and Bachelors from Andhra University College of Engineering, Visakhapatnam. He has worked as Post-Doctoral research fellow at National University of Singapore for about six years. He has over 17 years of working experience in Academics, Industry, and Research. He has led water resources cluster team at UTB (2015-2017) which has focused on Water-Energy Nexus, Smart Water and Environmental Management. His research activities are mainly focused in the development of modelling methods for systems with inherent uncertainties in multidisciplinary fields. He has experience of working in multidisciplinary fields and has expertise in various evolutionary optimization techniques and process modeling. He has published more than 52 research articles in reputed journals and conference proceedings with a combined Impact factor of 80.314 and has an h-index of 12 (Scopus) and 13 (Google Scholar). He also contributed 7 book chapters published in Elsevier & Springer journals. He is in editorial board member in 5 renowned journals and peer-review member in more than a 50 reputed journals from Elsevier (22), Springer (8), Taylor & Francis (4), Scientific Reports and other reputed journals (15). He is also delegating as advisory board member for many International conferences. He is presently holding a position as Editor-in-Chief in International Journal of Chemoinformatics and Chemical Engineering, IGI Global. He is also a Guest editor for Spl. Issue: “Nanocomposites for the Sustainable Environment”, in Applied Sciences Journal (IF: 1.689), MDPI.
Research Interests: Process modeling and simulation; Process control, Multi-objective optimization; machine learning; Data-Model Integration