Dr.S.Sivanagaraju received his Masters degree in 2000 from IIT, Kharagpur and did his Ph.D from J.N.T.University in 2004.He is currently working as associate professor in the department of Electrical Engineering. J.N.T.U.College of Engg. (Autonomous) Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh,India. He had received two national awards (Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya memorial prize award and Best paper prize award) from the institute of engineers(India) for the year 2003-04.He is referee for IEE Proceedings-Generation Transmission and Distribution and International journal of Emerging Electrical Power System.He has 40 publications in National and International journals and conferece to his credit. His areas of interest are in Distribution Automation,Genetic Algorithm application to distribution systems and power system.