K. Raju received his B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from NITK, Mangaluru, Karnataka in 1990 and M. Tech in Manufacturing Engineering from NITK, Mangaluru, Karnataka in 1994, and Ph. D. in Mechanical Engineering from IIT(BHU), Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India in 2009. Since 2010 he is working as a Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, St Joseph Engineering College, Mangaluru, Karnataka, India. He has 30 years of teaching and 18 years of research experience. His research interests are in the areas of Spray forming, Manufacturing Engineering and Bio fuels.