Banoth Karan Kumar is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Pharmacy at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India. His research interests encompass computational studies of small biomolecules, as well as drug discovery against neglected tropical diseases. He has authored/co-authored more than 30 Research and Review publications in peer-reviewed international journals. He has been awarded a fellowship by the Indian government to pursue his doctorate.