Raju S. Bapi received the BE (Electrical Engineering) degree from Osmania University, India; the MS (Biomedical Engineering) and PhD (Mathematical Sciences Computer Science) degrees from the University of Texas, Arlington, USA. He worked at BHEL, India; the University of Plymouth, UK; and ATR Research Labs, Kyoto, Japan before joining the University of Hyderabad, India. After having served University of Hyderabad till 2019, he joined as Professor at IIIT Hyderabad, India and is associated with the Cognitive Science Lab, Kohli Centre for Intelligent Systems (KCIS), IIIT-H, Hyderabad, India. His research interests include the practical applications of various neural network, machine learning and deep learning techniques, investigation of biological neural architectures, empirical experiments using behavioural and neuroimgaing assays and cognitive modelling. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, member of the ACM, Society for Neuroscience and Cognitive Science Society.