Rage Uday Kiran is currently working as an associate professor at the University of Aizu, Aizu Wakamatsu, Fukushima, Japan. He also works as a researcher at the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. He received his PhD in computer science from the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, Telangana, India. His current research interests include data mining, parallel computation, air pollution data analytics, traffic congestion data analytics, recommender systems, and ICT for agriculture. He has published over 80 papers in refereed journals and international conferences, such as the Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), the International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), the International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM), the Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge, Discovery, and Data Mining (PAKDD), Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA), and International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA).