Dr. B. Sathiyabhama received her PhD degree in Computer Science and Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India. She is currently Professor and Head, Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Sona College of Technology, Salem. Her research interests lie in the areas of Data Mining and Bioinformatics, Big Data Analytics, Health Care Informatics, Algorithm Analysis and Compiler Design and Optimization. She has been a Program and Technical Committee member of several conferences. She was the Chair and invited speaker of several workshops on Data mining and Bioinformatics and technical symposia.  She is a reviewer of several journals and conferences.  She is co-authored a book titled Professional ethics and Human Values. She has published widely in international journals and conferences. She has a professional membership in IEEE, ACM, ISTE, CSI and ISRD (Senior Member). She has received many awards for excellence in teaching and research and development contributions in the College and the best student award (PG level). She is also selected for 2010 Who’s who in the world, conducted by Marquis USA.