Dr. Dhana Lakshmi Rao has over twenty years of academic experience internationally, including the University of Michigan, the State University of New York at Binghamton, East Carolina University, Marshall University, the University of New South Wales Sydney, Marine Biotechnology Institute (Shimizu, Japan), and the University of the South Pacific.

Dr. Rao’s research interests include Data Science, Bioinformatics, Oral Biofilms, Information Retrieval and Search Engines, Data Management, and Applied Machine Learning. Dr. Rao received a Ph.D. in Microbiology from the New South Wales Sydney.