Dr. P.A.Balakrishnan is presently working as a Dean Academic at Bharathiyar Institute of engineering for women, Salem, Tamilnadu, India. His research area of Interests includes Control system, Artificial Intelligence, Process Control, Embedded system etc. Presently he is guiding six PhD scholars. He has published many papers in National/International conferences and Journals. He has 4 patents to his credit. Earlier, he was a scientist with 30 years of R&D experience in an Asia’s biggest leather research institute.