M. Anji Reddy is presently working as Director, Institute of Science of Technology, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad. He received his Ph.D. in Remote Sensing from JNTU and M.Tech. in Surveying, Photogrammetry Engineering from IIT, Kanpur. He has more than 17 years of experience in environmental geoinformatics and digital image processing. He published more than 72 research papers in national and international journals. He has authored two books "Textbook of Remote Sensing and GIS" and "Geoinformatics for Environmental Management".