Gururaja KV is a batrachologist (one who studies frogs and toads), working as a faculty and researcher at Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology, A constituent Unit of Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Bengaluru, India. He is also an Associate Academic Dean for the Undergraduate Programme, Year 2. 

His research interests are in the field of amphibian acoustics, behaviour, ecology and systematics. 

He started Frog Watch, India, a citizen science programme under a Creative Commons license. He has described 21 new species of frogs and three novel breeding behaviours in frogs from the Western Ghats. There are over 60 peer-reviewed publications. He was awarded the State Biodiversity Award for Excellence, by the Government of Karnataka in 2016 and the Geospatial Excellence Award for the first-ever app on frogs – Frog Find developed in 2014. He is the recipient of Prajavani Achievers 2022.  

My teaching philosophy is – Teaching is the best way to learn and the learning process never ends. I frequent schools, colleges and universities with an ambition to ignite young minds with curious questions in ecology, keeping amphibians as focal organisms.