Dr.S.Balakrishnan is a Professor and Head, Department of Computer Science and Business Systems at Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. He has  more then 17 years of experience in teaching, research and administration. He has published over 15 books, 3 Book Chapters, 20 Technical articles in CSI Communications Magazine, 1 article in Electronics for You (EFY) magazine, 3 articles in Open Source for You Magazine and over 100 publications in highly cited Journals and Conferences. Some of his professional awards include: Data Science Writer of the Year 2019 - Artificial Intelligence, MTC Global Outstanding Researcher Award, Contributors Competition Winner July 2019, August 2019 and September 2019 by Data Science Foundation, with cash prize of £100, 100 Inspiring Authors of India, Deloitte Innovation Award - Cash Prize Rs.10,000/- from Deloitte for Smart India Hackathon 2018, Patent Published Award, Impactful Author of the Year 2017-18. His research interests are Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing and IoT. He has delivered several guest lectures, seminars and chaired a session for various Conferences. He is serving as a Reviewer and Editorial Board Member of many reputed Journals and acted as Session chair and Technical Program Committee member of National conferences and International Conferences at Vietnam, China, America and Bangkok. He has published more than 19 Patents on IoT Applications.