Prof. Dr. J. Ramanujam is currently a Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and the Director of the Center for Computation and Technology at Louisiana State University. He received his B. Tech. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 1983. He obtained an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Ohio State University in 1987 and 1990, respectively. His research keywords include machine learning and artificial intelligence.