Karthi Balasubramanian has a Bachelors in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Delhi Institute of Technology, INDIA (1999), Masters in Engineering Science from Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada (2002) and Ph.D. from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (2016). He has worked as a VLSI chip design engineer at Cogent Chipware Inc. and PMC-Sierra at Burnaby, Canada before joining as a faculty at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham. He is currently working as an associate professor in the Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering at Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore. His areas of interest include VLSI for communication; non-linear dynamics and complex systems. Currently his research pursuits include ‘VLSI design of reliability based soft decision decoders’ and ‘Exploring the use of non-linear dynamics and complexity analysis for identification of biomarkers for genome classification and for early detection of epileptic seizures using ECG and EEG.