Dr. Krishnanand Lanka is a professor in the mechanical engineering department of NIT Warangal. He did his B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from VRSEC Vijayawada in 1983 and M.Tech in Industrial Engineering from NIT Calicut in 1986. He joined as a faculty member at NIT Warangal in 1987. Subsequently, he did a Ph.D. from NIT Warangal in the year 1999 in the area of automatic feature recognition from CAD. His research areas are additive manufacturing, supply chain management, and project management. His paper on supply chain management was awarded best paper for outstanding conceptual/theoretical framework in an international conference on e-business and supply chain competitiveness held in IIT KGP in 2016. He has published his research papers in reputed journals.