Dr. Balasubramanian Raman (Senior Member, IEEE) is Professor (HAG) and Head of the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, where he also holds a joint appointment with the Mehta Family School of Data Science & AI. He served as the iHUB Divyasampark Chair Professor from 2022 to 2025. Dr. Raman earned his Ph.D. from IIT Madras (2001). His research spanning machine learning, computer vision, image/video processing, and pattern recognition—has produced more than 250 peer-reviewed publications. He has undertaken post-doctoral and visiting appointments at Rutgers University, the University of Missouri–Columbia, Osaka Metropolitan University, Curtin University, and the University of Cyberjaya. He has also supervised several Ph.D. scholars. Dr. Raman has co-authored books such as Deep Learning Through the Prism of Tensors (Springer Nature, 2024), The Geometry of Intelligence: Foundations of Transformer Networks in Deep Learning (Springer Nature, 2025), and Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (2025). His honours include the DST BOYSCAST Fellowship, two IIT Roorkee Outstanding Teacher Awards, the Ramkumar Prize for Outstanding Teaching and Research, and the ICPC Coach Award, which recognised his teams’ top-50 finishes at the ACM ICPC World Finals.