Prof. (Dr.) K. PALANIKUMAR is a Senior Professor and Principal at Sri Sai Ram Institute of Technology, Chennai, India. He has been involved in teaching, research, development and innovations in higher technical education. He received the National-Visvesvaraya Best Teacher award from AICTE, Government of India from the Central Education minister at New Delhi. He is on the list of the world's top 2% of researchers on materials compiled by Stanford University. He has published more than 450 papers in reputed journals with an h-index of 65 and more than 15000 citations. He is the innovator of many products and has published around 50 patents and been granted 20 patents in engineering and technology. He has undertaken many funded projects. He has received the Best researcher award from ISTE twice. He has also received many awards from The Institution of Engineers (India), Computer Society of India, and Indian Society for Non Destructive Testing and Evaluation and the world top 1% reviewer award from PUBLONS by Web of Science. He has guided more than 21 scholars to obtain their Ph.D in the field of Materials Science and Manufacturing Engineering. He has guided his students to participate in various go green initiatives and national and international competitions. He adheres to the SDG goals in his academic curricular and cocurricular activities. His areas of interest are composite materials, manufacturing, soft computing, total quality management and machine learning.