Dr Munaga HM Krishna Prasad is currently an Professor of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University College of Engineering Kakinada (Autonomous), JNTUK, Andhra Pradesh. He did B.E. from C.B.I.T, Osmania University, Hyderabad, M.Tech. and Ph.D. Computer Science and Engineering (in general) and (in specific data mining, Thesis Title: "Trajectory Clustering Algorithm: A Data Mining Solution to Industrial Problems – Critical Analysis and Evaluation") from JNTU, Hyderabad. Dr Munaga successfully completed a two year MIUR fellowship (Jan 2007 – Dec 08) at University of Udine, Udine, Italy. He has about 50+ research papers in various International Journals and Conferences, and attended many national and international conferences in India and abroad. He is a member of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), ISTE and IAENG (Germany) is an active member of the board of reviewers in various International Journals and Conferences. His research interests include data mining, BigData Analytics and High Performance Computing. During 2015, in the Ministerial delegation and Higher Education Team, he participated in the Programme for Leadership in University Management (PLUM), at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He has received the prestigious STATE TEACHER AWARD from the Hon'ble Chief Minister, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh on 5th Sept. 2019.