M. Sivakumar is working as a Professor and Dean Freshman of Engineering in the Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr. Sagunthala R&D Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India. He has served in various capacities for 27 years both in industries and educational institutions. He has published more than 50 papers in peer reviewed international journals in research areas such as tolerance allocation, selective assembly, layout design, and process parameter optimization. He is well-known among researchers for his training on MATLAB coding for meta-heuristic algorithms.