Karbhari Vishwanth KaleK. V. Kale is currently working as a Vice-Chancellor of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Technological University, Lonere, Raigad, India. He worked as a Professor, Program Coordinator of UGC SAP and DST FIST, in the Department of Computer Science and IT as wellas Coordinator of University RUSA project & School of Computational and Physical Sciences. He worked as a Director, Board of College and University Development (BCUD) of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad, Maharashtra. He was Head of the Department of Computer Science and IT at University more than 9 years. He also served as Director of University Network & Information Center (UNIC) of Dr. BAMU. He has acted as President of ICT Section the Indian Science Congress Association, Kolkata in the year 2015-2016 under the Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India. He is a pioneer of Multimodal Biometrics and Remote Sensing Data Analysis in the region and established & developed state-of-art Multimodal Biometrics Research Laboratory (MBRL) as a unique national Laboratory, RS and GIS, Pattern Recognition and as a center of excellence in teaching and research in biometrics and advance Image processing technology in university. He has more than 30 years of experience in research, innovation and teaching at UG, PG and PhD level. He has published more than 350+National and International research articles, 06 books and 23 book chapters. The current total impact factor of his research is more than 24, with h-index of 25 and i10-index of 57 and 8 Indian Patent 2- Australian patents. He has given a number of plenary lectures, invited talks and Chaired Sessions at Symposia, workshop, national &international conferences. He has successfully supervised 36 Ph.D., 08 M. Phil and 22M.Tech students and currently 07 PhD students, 06 M.Phil. Students and 14M. Tech (CSE) scholars are working with him. His area of research includes Remote Sensing and GIS, Image Processing, Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Neural Network, Big Data Analytic, Internet of Things (IoT) etc. He is Editor in Chief, Editors, Reviewers of various International, National Journals. Professor Kale has several academic honours and professional distinctions to his credits. He has served on various bodies and authorities of the university like Senate Member, Management Council Member, Academic Council Member, BOS & RRC’s chairman, BUTER Member, BCUD member, etc. time to time. He has also been working on various statutory authorities of other universities, in different capacities such as; Chairman and Member. Read More Read Less