Ambati Ranga Rao (Ph.D) is an Associate Professor and Senior Scientist in Biotechnology at Vignan’s Foundation for Science, Technology and Research University, Andhra Pradesh, India. He was a postdoctoral researcher at Arizona State University, USA; a visiting senior research fellow at the University of Malaya, Malaysia; and a visiting assistant professor at Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College, China. His research interests are algal biotechnology, food science and technology, plant secondary metabolites, functional foods, nutraceuticals, and biological sciences. He has authored over 100 publications, including research articles, patents, reviews, and edited books and book chapters. His research citations exceed 7300 with an h-index of 30 and an i10-index of 66 in Google Scholar. He has delivered lectures as an invited speaker at international/national conferences/symposia in the United States, Canada, Brazil, Russia, China, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Oman. He is among the top 2% of scientists in the field of biological sciences and food science, as published by Stanford University, depending on the Scopus database for 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024.