Sivakumar Dakshinamurthi is currently working as a Professor in the Department of Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering in Annamalai University, India. He received his B.E. and M.E. Degrees from Annamalai University. He received his Ph.D Degree in Control Systems from the PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India. He has published many technical papers in national and international conferences and journals. His research interests include signal and image processing, process control and fault tolerant control.