Dr. C. Krishna Mohan is currently a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IIT Hyderabad), India. He has been with IIT Hyderabad since 2009. He worked as Dean of Public and Corporate Relations, IIT Hyderabad, from Jan 2020 till Jan 2022. He was also the Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Hyderabad, from May 2010 till October 2014. Before joining IIT Hyderabad, he was a senior faculty member at the National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal (NITK Surathkal). He received his M.Tech from NITK Surathkal and Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras).

Prof Krishna Mohan heads Visual Learning and Intelligence Lab (VIGIL) at IIT Hyderabad working in the research areas of video content analysis, computer vision, machine learning, deep learning. He is a recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award, in recognition of distinguished teaching in the years 2018 and 2021 at IIT Hyderabad. He has published more than 90 papers in peer-reviewed international journals and conference proceedings. He has guided several Ph.D. (14), Masters (33), and Undergraduate (56) students. He has successfully carried out several projects with industry, government agencies, and academia.

Dr. C. Krishna Mohan was a Member of the Board of Governors (BOG), IIT Hyderabad, from June 2020 to December 2021 and Member of the Board of Governors (BOG), IIIT Kottayam from July 2022. Also, he is a Member of the Board of Directors, IIT Hyderabad Technology Research Park from September 2020 and a Member of the Board of Directors, i-TIC which is Technology Business Incubator (TBI) at IIT Hyderabad from September 2020. He is a Senate Member of IIT Hyderabad from November 2010. Also, he served as Senate Member of IIT Tirupati from September 2019 to April 2022, and IIITDM Kurnool from May 2019 to May 2021. He serves as a reviewer for several reputed international conferences and IEEE journals and is a Senior Member of IEEE, Member of ACM, AAAI Member, Life Member of ISTE, Fellow of IEI, IETE, and TAS.