P.Saratchandran obtained his BSc(Eng) (First Class) from Regional Engineering College Calicut, India and MTech (First class) from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India in Electrical Engineering. He subsequently obtained a MSc (Distinction) in Systems Enginering from the City University, London and a Ph.D in the area of Adaptive Control from Oxford University UK.

He worked for two years as a scientist with the Indian Space Research Organisation and spent five years as a Senior Design Engineer with the Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd; India designing defence related avionics systems. From 1984 to 1990 he worked in Australia for various defence industries as a Systems Consultant and Manager developing real-time software/systems for the Australian Defence forces (RAAF, RAN) and the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO). During this period he was also a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Computer Science and Mathematics at the Macquarie University in Sydney ,Australia. Since 1990 he is with the Nanyang Technological University, where he is an Associate Professor.

P. Saratchandran has more than 100 publications in refereed conferences and prestigious journals. Two of his papers have won best paper awards in International conferences. He has also authored four books in the area of neural networks. He gave the invited plenary talk at the Second International Conference on Neural and Parallel Computations held in Atlanta, USA, in 2002. He has also been actively engaged with the local defense industry through short courses and projects. He is a Senior member of the IEEE and is also an Editor for the journal ‘Neural Parallel and Scientific Computations’. His interests are in Neural Networks, Machine learning, Parallel computing and Control. He is listed in the Macquarie Who’s Who in the world and in the Leaders in the World of the International Biographics Centre, Cambridge, UK.