Somasundaram .K was born in the year 1953. He received the M.Sc degree in Physics from University of Madras, Chennai, India in 1976, the Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Methods from Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India in 1989 and the Ph.D degree in theoretical Physics from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India in 1984. He is presently the Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Science and Applications, and Head, Computer Centre at Gandhigram Rural Institute, Gandhigram, India. From 1976 to 1989, he was a Professor with the Department of Physics at the same Institute. He was previously a Researcher at an International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy and a Development Fellow of Commonwealth Universities at the school of Multimedia, Edith Cowan University, Australia. His research interests are in image processing, image compression and medical imaging. He is a Life member of Indian Society for Technical Education. He is also an annual member in ACM, USA and IEEE Computer Society, USA.