Dr Raje Siddiraju Upendra, PhD, LMISTE Dr Raje Siddiraju Upendra is Presently working as Associate Professor & Head Research at School of MDS/ECE, REVA UNIVERSITY, and Ex-Research Associate and Lecturer ALFATHA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY Tripoli, Libya. Holds 18 years of research, 20 years of teaching, and 01-year industry experience. He received a master's from the University of Madras, an MTech from JNTU-Hyderabad, and a Doctorate from VTU, Belagavi. Principal Investigator (PI) of STI HUB-DST sanctioned project (2023-2026) worth 352 L and received funding from prestigious organizations such as DST, VGST, AICTE, KSBDB, and KSCST. He received consultancy of more than 15 L rupees from Kyathi and Biocon etc. Received Research Excellence award (2024-2025) in World IPR Conclave BNMIT Bangalore, REVA Excellence award (2023-2024), and Best Teacher award in 2021. Recipient of best project of the year award for three consecutive years (2015-2018) from KSBDB, Govt of Karnataka. BOE member of VTU (2016-17) and Member of VTU Research Guide Pannel Board. He is a seasoned trainer for the KGI certificate program (2017-18) Biocon India and has given invited talks to various MNCs such as Kennametal, Biocon, and Serum Institute on multidisciplinary topics. He is an Inventor of 18 institutional Patents, and 08 Copyrights, and discovered 03 novel fungal isolates submitted to IMTech, Chandigarh, Govt of India. and 24 novel sequences as discoveries in NCBI-USA. Editorial board member of Cambridge Schola