Dr. Sitalakshmi Venkatraman obtained doctoral degree in Computer Science, from National Institute of Industrial Engineering, India in 1993 and MEd from University of Sheffield, UK in 2001. Prior to this, she had completed MSc in Mathematics in 1985 and MTech in Computer Science in 1987, both from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India. This author is a Senior Member (SM) of IASCIT.

In the past 25 years, Sita's work experience involves both industry and academics - developing turnkey projects for IT industry and teaching a variety of IT courses for tertiary institutions, in India, Singapore, New Zealand, and more recently in Australia since 2007. She currently works as Lecturer (Information Technology) at the School of Engineering, Construction & Design, Melbourne Polytechnic, Australia.  She also serves as Member of Register of Experts at Australia's Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA). 

Sita has published eight book chapters and more than 100 research papers in internationally well-known refereed journals and conferences that include Information Sciences, Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Engineering, International Journal of

Business Information Systems, and Information Management & Computer Security. She serves as Program Committee Member of several international conferences and Senior Member of professional societies and editorial board of three international journals.