Nagasuri Bala Venkateswarlu

Dr. N. B. Venkateswarlu got his Ph.d from BITS, Pilani in 1992 in “Parallel Image Processing Algorithms”. From 1993 Jan to mid of 1995, he had worked at University of Leeds, UK as a visiting fellow.

Dr. Venkateswarlu completed his M.Tech (IIT-Kanpur) in Dec 1988 and B.Tech from SV University College of Engineering, Tirupathi in 1986 with distinction and University 5th rank. Soon after M.Tech, he has joined BITS, Pilani as a Lecturer and actively participated in developing the Computer Science Department. He, along with Prof Mandke, the then Deputy Director of BITS, Pilani has developed many courses in Emerging Areas such as Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks, Robotics, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing, Expert Systems, in 1989 itself. He has, to his credit more than 40 articles in International Journals. He is a referee to International Journals such as Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision and Graphics, Pattern Recognition Letters, IEE Electronics Letters.

He is reviewer to many standard journals including Pattern Recognition, Pattern Recognition Letters, Computer Vision and Image Processing.

He has published many books such as: Unix and Windows NT, Linux Programming Tools Unveiled, BS Publishers Hyderabad, India. Also, C and Data Structures, Learn Object Oriented Programming Using Java, S Chand, Unix and Shell Programming, C# .NET, Reem Publishers.

Also, he has published a book for preparing GATE Computer Science examination from McGraw Hill in 2012.

He has written many books on programming puzzles, especially aimed at High School students and International Olympiad participants.

At the end of 1995, he had started RITCH Center at Visakhapatnam to continue Research & Development in Alternative Technologies, and to impart Training in Computers for the masses around Visakhapatnam.

Presently, he is a senior professor of CSE, GVPCEW, Visakhapatnam, India. He also worked as member of Board of Studies, JNTU, Kakinada. He worked as a member of National Resource Center on Free Open Source Software (NRC-FOSS) of Ministry of Information Technology, Govt of India.