Dr. B.Venkateswara Rao did his Ph.D in Water Resources from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU) and is presently working as Professor & Head, Centre for Water Resources in the same University. He has obtained his masters degree from Andhra University in the field of Geophysics in the year 1984. He was an anchor to develop the Centre for Water Resources by starting M.Tech. (Water and Environmental Technology) and Ph.D (Water Resources Management) programmes apart from developing relevant laboratories at the centre. He has executed nine R&D projects sanctioned by national and international funding agencies and guided 44 M.Tech. and 3 Ph.D theses in the water and environmental issues. He has published over 61 research papers many of them are in both National and International journals.

Dr. Rao is life member of many professional organizations in the field of water resources, few of them includes IWRA, AGID, IWRS, IAH, AHI, and AEG. He is also co-ordinator for Part Time Post Graduate Progrmmes at Institute of Science and Technology J.N.T. University. His areas of research interest include Ground Water Resources Exploration and Management, Environmental pollution and Impact Assessment, Hard Rock Hydrology, Siltation and Sustainability of Multipurpose Reservoir projects and Watershed Management. He is referee to the International Journal of Remote Sensing and Indian Journal of Remote Sensing.

He is an expert committee member for Selection of the projects and personnel in the prestigious National bodies like Department of Science and Technology, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research and National Geophysical Research Institute, Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture and Osmania University. He served as Member Board of Intermediate Govt. of Andhra Pradesh. He has been governing body member for many engineering colleges in Andhra Pradesh. He is a Member of Technical Advisory Committee of National Institute of Hydrology.. The University of Birmingham, U.K. has conferred upon Dr. Rao the title of Honorary Research Fellow in the school of Engineering during 2004-2005. He has also been awarded best citizen award by International Publishing House, New Delhi.

In recognition of his outstanding contribution in the field of New and Emerging Sciences, the Govt. of Andhra Pradesh is conferred on him the Andhra Pradesh Scientist Award-2006.