Dr. Madhuri Rao is currently associated with the School of Computer Science Engineering & Technology of the Dr. Vishwanath Karad MIT world Peace University in the capacity as a Senior Assistant Professor. She has more than 15 years of rich teaching experience with premier institutes such as Sybmiosis International University, Pune and Siksha 'O' Anusandhan Deemed University, Bhubaneswar. Dr Rao also has a couple of years of industrial experience with the CSS Corporation. Dr. Rao has acquired her Doctoral Degree from the Biju Patnaik University of Technology, Odisha and Master of Technology from the Bharath University, Chennai. She is also a recipient of the Best Research Scholar award of BPUT, Odisha under the TEQIP -III scheme. 

Dr. Rao has published many research papers as journals, book chapters with indexing in Scopus, SCI and WoS. She has also published and presented in many International Conferences. Dr. Rao has also recently published a patent titled "Post Covid Heart Health Monitoring using Machine learning Techniques on smart watch data". Dr. Rao is also serving as Academic Editor of PloS One a Q1 Journal with an impressive impact factor while she is also an active reviewer in a couple of journals with Springer and Elsevier. Dr Rao research interests are Distributed Computing, High Performance Computing, Wireless Sensor Network and in techniques of Machine Learning and AI