Dr. Sudha M. is currently a professor in the Department of Information Technology at VIT University, where she has been since 2008. She completed her Ph.D. in predictive analytics and machine learning from VIT in 2016. She received her Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from Madras University in 2000 and her Master of Engineering in Computer Science from Anna University in 2006. She has 22 years of teaching experience. Her research interests lie in the domains of data analytics and informatics. Dr. Sudha has authored books titled "Applied Computational Intelligence" (2019) and "Cloud Computing and its Applications" (2023). She holds patents derived from her research and has published more than 45 articles in reputed international journals and conference proceedings.