Dr. Sankaran Palani obtained his B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering in the year 1966 from the University of Madras, M.Tech. in Control Systems Engineering from IIT Kharagpur in 1968 and Ph.D. in Control Systems Engineering from the University of Madras in 1982 with academic excellence. He has wide teaching experience of over four decades. He started his teaching career in the year 1968 at the erstwhile Regional Engineering College (Now National Institute of Technology), Tiruchirappalli, in the Department of EEE, and occupied various positions. As a professor and head, he took the initiative to start the Instrumentation and Control Engineering Department. After a meritorious service of more than three decades in REC, Tiruchirappalli, he joined Sudharsan Engineering College, Pudukkottai, as the founder principal. He has published more than a hundred research papers in reputed international journals and has won many cash awards. Under his guidance, several scholars were awarded Ph.D. He has carried out several research projects funded by the Government of India AICTE and other agencies. As the theme leader of the Indo - UK, REC Project on energy, he has visited many universities and industries in the UK. His areas of research include the design of intelligent controllers for dynamic systems, digital signal processing, and image processing.
