Dr.N.Radhakrishnan took his M.Tech. from the Department of Civil Engineering, IIT – Bombay. Later , he obtained his Ph.D from the University of Texas, Austin, USA.nnDr. Radhakrishnan has over 40 years of experience in Information Technology. He is a widely respected leader in the Army, DOD, and industry in computational science & engineering. During 1999-2003, Dr. Radhakrishnan was the Director of Computational & Information Sciences Directorate with a budget of US$180 million and the Chief Information Officer of the US Army’s Corporate R & D Laboratory with a research funding of US$10 billion. He has also been the Director of US Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station.