Dr. K.N.Balasubramanya Murthy -Professor of CSE and Vice-Chancellor, Dayananda Sagar University (DSU) (Former Vice-Chancellor, PES University, Bengaluru). He holds a Bachelors degree in Electrical power Engineering, Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology - Madras, He has worked as a research specialist in Parallel Computing at New Mexico State University, USA. He is currently a member of Karnataka State Higher Education Council and the Academic Senate Member of IIIT-Dharwad.