Dr. S. Thirumeninathan, PhD in Agronomy, works as an assistant professor (agronomy) at Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru College of the Agriculture and Research Institute, Pondicherry University, Karaikal. He did research work on area and yield estimation in groundnut crop integrating SAR data and crop growth models. His work is of great significance in the spread of the groundnut growing area in the state of Tamil Nadu, as it is highly varying with the data presented by the crop cutting experiments of the Department of Statistics. He was awarded as Young Researcher, Best Oral and Poster Presentation in several national and international conferences.