Dr. Bala Chakravarthy Neelapu has completed B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering Dr. Bala Chakravarthy Neelapu is working as an assistant professor in the Department of Biotechnology and Medical Engineering at the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India. His area of interest is medical image processing and computer vision. He has authored more than 20 articles in SCI-indexed journals. JNTU Hyderabad in 2008, M.Tech. in Electronics and Communication Engineering from JNTU Kakinada, in 2011, and PhD in Engineering from AcSIR (Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research) at CSIR-Central Scientific Instruments Organization, Chandigarh in 2018. Currently, he is working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology and Medical Engineering of National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India. Prior to join NIT Rourkela, he had worked as Assistant Professor at K L University, Andhra Pradesh. His area of interest is Medical Image Processing and Computer Vision. He has authored more than 10 articles in SCI indexed journals and conferences. Dr. Bala Chakravarthy has filed 2 patents in India and US and 1 of them was granted by US Patent Office. He has served as a Guest Editor of 2 reputed SCI journals and also served as a reviewer of several SCI and SCOPUS indexed journals.