Prof. Kondepudi Lal Kishore is a distinguished academician and administrator with over 34 years of teaching experience. A post graduate and Ph.D. degree holder from Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, Professor Kishore began his career in teaching at Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTUH) Hyderabad in 1977. He is elevated as professor in 1990 in the same University and subsequently held many academic and administrative positions in the University. He has over 180 research publications to his credit till now. So far 17 research scholars obtained Ph.D under his guidance and many more are doing research under him. He wrote Six Text Books in the areas of Electronic Devices, Electronic Circuit Analysis, Linear I.C. Applications, Electronic Measurements and VLSI, which are popular and widely used by engineering students.