Kalyana Veluvolu

Dr. Kalyana C. Veluvolu is a Professor at the College of IT Engineering, Kyungpook National University, South Korea. He is currently the Head of the Intelligent Systems and Control Division of School of Electronics Engineering. He is also the director of the research lab where he heads an interdisciplinary research group whose interests lie at the intersection of intelligence, robotics, sensing systems and health-care. Specifically, his interests are on developing technology for biomedical, health-care related fields, with primary focus on smart medical robotics, and EEG based human/brain computer interface applications. Since 2009, he has been with the College of IT Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea.

He received the B.Tech degree in electrical and electronic engineering from Nagarjuna University, Guntur, India, in 2002, and the Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2006. From 2006 to 2009, he was a Research Fellow with the Robotics Research Center, Nanyang Technological University. He was attached to the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, as a Visiting Professor during 2016–2017. He has also held several visiting positions in University of Newcastle, UK, and University of Valenciennes, France. He has been a Principal Investigator or a Co-Investigator on a number of research projects funded by government, industry, and universities with a total budget of over 8 Million USD.

He also received several awards for research excellence including the 2020 KNU Academic (Life time) Award and 2017 Excellent Research Award awarded by Ministry of Education, South Korea in 2018. Further, he was also awarded with best teaching award in 2021. He has authored or co-authored more than 120 journal articles and conference proceedings. He is currently the Associate Editor for Journal of The Franklin Institute, Systems Science and Control Engineering Journal, Electronics, Complex Engineering Systems, etc., He has been on technical/program committees of several international conferences. Dr. Veluvolu is also a senior member of IEEE.