Professor R. Balasubramanian is currently with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India. His areas of interest include computer vision, image processing, machine learning and other allied areas. Being an active researcher he is part of several reputed research labs such as SeSaMe Research centre, National University of Singapore, SINGAPORE, School of Computer Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Pulau Pinag, Malaysia, Faculty of Computing and Informatics, Multimedia University, Cyberjaya Campus, Malaysia, and Department of Computer Science, University at Albany-State University of New York (SUNY), NY, USA. So far, he has published more than 130 international journals, 125 conference proceedings, 7 book chapters and a technical report. He is the recipient of BOYSCAST fellowship (awarded by DST, India). He is also the recipient of "Outstanding Teacher Award 2010" awarded by IIT Roorkee.