Subramaniyan Vijayakumar has received his doctorate degree from Barathidhasan University and has more than 18 years of teaching experience at U.G. and P.G. levels, and a research experience of 20 years. He is working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Botany and Microbiology, A.V.V.M. Sri Pushpam College (Autonomous), Poondi-613 503, Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu. He has vast experience in research especially on algae, medicinal plants, environmental microbiology and computer aided drug design (CADD). He has guided many P.G. students for their projects in the field of fresh water algae, medicinal plants and bioremediation. At present, he has completed 15 Ph.D and is guiding 7 Ph.D. programmes in this line. So far, he has guided 27 M.Phil. candidates for their degree and published 136 research papers in SCI journals. He has received the best paper award from the National Symposium on “Algae, Man and Biosphere” and International Medicinal Plants and Pharmacological Research, Colombo University, Srilanka, a young scientist award from Washington University, USA, an innovative research award from Rajiv Gandhi Research centre, Mauritius, best chairperson award from the University of Malaya, and a Malaysia and best publication award from the Materials Science Research Association of China. He also completed one UGC Minor, UGC Major Project and DST-SERB major project in the area of Computer Aided Drug Design and Modelling.