Dr. Shylaja S S is the Chairperson, Department of Computer Science and Engineering (UG Studies) at P E S University, Bangalore. She is also the Professor and Head, Department of CSE and Department of ISE at P E S Institute of Technology (PESIT), Bangalore. She completed her Bachelor's degree from UVCE, Bangalore University in 1989, Master's degree from Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering, Mysore University in 1993. She secured the First rank in the university in her M. Tech course. She completed the 'C' level course from DOEACC and holds a Ph.D in the domain of Face Recognition from Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU). She has 28 years of teaching experience and 15 years of research experience. She has several journal articles, national and international conference publications to her credit. She has taught a plethora of courses and has guided several projects and research activities at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She is a member of BOS of several organizations, reviewer of conferences and member of many technical committees. Dr. Shylaja is heading two centers at P E S University, the Center for Data Sciences and Applied Machine Learning (CDSAML) and the Huawei Innovation Lab, facilitating research and internship opportunities for students and faculty members. Her research areas include Image Processing, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning.