Dr. Bathina Venkateswara Rao received his B.Tech in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from GITAM, Visakhapatnam (2000), and M.Tech in Electrical Power Engineering from JNTU Hyderabad (2007). He obtained his Ph.D. from JNTU Hyderabad in 2015 and has over 20 years of teaching experience. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, V R Siddhartha School of Engineering, Siddhartha Academy of Higher Education, Vijayawada, India. He has published over 100 research papers and has served as a reviewer for several reputed journals. He has supervised two Ph.D. scholars and is currently guiding three. He received the Outstanding Faculty in Engineering Award (Electrical and Electronics) with a Bronze Medal at VIFA 2017 and Certificates of Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing from Elsevier journals in 2015 and 2017. He also received the Best Paper Award at the 2019 International Conference at NIT Rourkela. He is a life member of ISTE, IEI, and SESI. His research interests include Power System Optimization, Optimal Power Flow, FACTS Devices, Solar Cell Parameter Extraction, and Stability Analysis. He works with various optimization algorithms such as GA, PSO, Firefly, Bat, Whale, Grey Wolf, and Ant Lion for power system control and optimization. He can be contacted at drbvrao@vrsiddhartha.ac.in.