Chintala Sudhakar Reddy has obtained M.Sc. in Botany from Osmania University and Ph.D. in Botany from Kakatiya University. His earlier associations are with Andhra Pradesh State Forest Department and EPTRI, Hyderabad. He is working as Scientist-SG and Head of Forest Biodiversity & Ecology Division in National Remote Sensing Centre, Indian Space Research Organisation, Hyderabad. Dr. Reddy has been featured thrice in the list of top 2% scientists in the world in the fields of biology and geomatics engineering by Stanford University, U.S.A and Elsevier. He has published 296 research papers. As Project Director, he is leading DBT- DOS project on biodiversity characterisation at community level using Earth Observation data. Dr. Reddy is conferred with awards such as, Prof. Y.S. Murty Memorial Gold Medal Award-2022 from Indian Botanical Society, Hari Om Ashram Prerit Dr. Vikram Sarabhai Research Award - 2017 from Physical Research Laboratory, Government of India, Prof. M.B. Raizada Medal Award - 2016 and Dr. S.K. Jain Medal Award - 2010 from Association for Plant Taxonomy, Prof. P.R. Pisharoty Memorial Award - 2014 from Indian Society of Remote Sensing and Young Scientist Merit Award - 2008 from I.S.R.O. He is Fellow of Telangana Academy of Sciences, Indian Botanical Society, Indian Association for Angiosperm Taxonomy and Association for Plant Taxonomy. He has guided 9 Ph.D.s and 44 post graduate students.