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Venugopal K R

Dr. Venugopal K R was the Vice-Chancellor of Bangalore University during 2018-2022. He served University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering as Principal of 15 years and Bangalore University for over the last five decades. He has eleven degrees including Electronics, Economics, Law, Journalisum, Industrial Relations, Public Relations, Business Finance, Mass Communication and he has two Ph.Ds, one in Economics from Bangalore University and another in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute Technology Madras (IITM), Chennai. He is presently pursuing Ph.D in Law. He has authored and edited 103 books and published more than 1200 papers in International Conferences and International Journals. He has awarded Ph.Ds to 30 students and informally guided more than 200 Research Scholars and supervised more than 700 Post Graduate dissertations in Computer Science and Engineering. He has 40 patents to his credit.

He received IEEE Fellow and ACM Distinguished Educator award from USA for his outstanding contributions to Computer Science and Engineering and is the first Professor to receive this highest academic award in Computer Science and Engineering at the University level from India. He was a Post Doctoral Research Scholar and visiting Professor at University of Southern California, USA. His areas of interest includes Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, Machine Learning and Data Mining, International Economics and Cyber Law.