Dr. V. Vijaya Kumar is working as Dean in Dept. of CSE & IT, chairman Board of studies for CSE and IT and Director Centre for Advanced Computational Research (CACR) at Anurag Group of Institutions, (AGOI) (Autonomous), Hyderabad. He received integrated M.S.Engg, in CSE from USSR in 1989. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU), Hyderabad, India in 1998 and guided 28 research scholars for Ph.D. He acted as principle investigator for various R&D projects. He has served JNT University for 13 years as Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Professor. He has received best researcher and best teacher award from JNT University, Kakinada, India. His research interests include big data, image analytics, image retrieval, image processing, pattern recognition, digital water marking and cloud computing. At present he is also acting as BoS member for JNTUH and various other institutions. He is the life member of CSI, ISCA, ISTE, IE (I), IETE, ACCS, CRSI, IRS and REDCROSS. He published more than 100 research publications till now in various national, international journals and conferences. He has delivered key note addresses at various international conferences.