Dr. P.V.Venkateswara Rao is currently working as a Assistant Professor in the department of CSE , GITAM School of Technology , GITAM deemed to be University , Visakhapatnam - 530045, A.P , India. He received his Ph.D. Degree for his work on "A Framework to Minimize the Blackhole Attack On AODV Routing Protocol in Manets Using Soft Computing Techniques" from the J.N.T.U.K , Kakinada , A.P .