Susan Elias has been imparting engineering education in academia for the past 29 years. She completed her BE in Computer Science from Bharath Engineering College, Chennai. She received her M.E. in Multimedia Technology and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Anna University, Chennai, CEG Campus. She was subsequently selected for a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. She is currently a Deputy Director Research Division of Advanced-Data Science at the Vellore Institute of Technology–Chennai. She had been the Principal Investigator for two projects funded by the Defense Research Development Organization (DRDO), Govt. of India. Her research interests include Machine Learning and the design of smart environments for solving socially relevant applications. She is also actively involved in designing bio-medical products for the benefit of society