Dr. Kuruva Lakshmanna received his B-Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from Sri Venkateswara University College of Engineering, Tirupathi, India, in 2006, M-Tech in Computer Science and Engineering (Information Security) from National Institute of Technology Calicut, Kerala, India in 2009, and Ph.D. from VIT, India in 2017. He is working as an Associate professor at VIT, India. He was a visiting professor at Guangdong University of Technology, China, in 2018. His research interests are Machine learning, Data Mining in DNA sequences, IoT, Security, etc.