Prof. P. S Avadhani, distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Former Principal of Andhra University College of Engineering (A), Visakhapatnam and recently retired as Director, IIIT, Agartala. He received his Master's degree and Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Kanpur).

Dr. P. S Avadhani has published about 200 refereed scientific papers. He has supervised the dissertations of more than 20 doctoral students. He was invited by Microsoft Corporation to Malaysia to attend a conference on Dot-Net Technologies in June 2004. Served as member of National Board of Accreditation of AICTE and inspected various Engineering Colleges all over India as a member of NBA. Delivered Invited talks at many National & International Conferences and Chaired many sessions at National and International Conferences at many places in India and abroad. He was also invited by Amirkabir University, Tehran, Iran as a Special Guest for its 1st International Conference on New Research Achievements in Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Dr. P. S Avadhani is the recipient of the BEST RESEARCHER AWARD for the year 2005-2006 from Andhra University, BEST ACADEMICIAN AWARD for the year 2009-2010 from Andhra University, DISTINGUISHED ACADEMICIAN AWARD for the year 2011 from Pentagram Research Centre, CHAPTER PATRON AWARD for the year 2011 from Computer Society of India and THE BEST TEACHER AWARD FROM the State Government of Andhra Pradesh for the year 2015 on September 5th, 2015.

He was the member of Boards of Studies for many universities including North East University - Shillong, JNTU Kakinada, JNTU Hyderabad, JNTU Ananthapur, Sri Venkateswara University, AdikaviNannaya University and many others.