Professor Achuthsankar S. Nair has been heading the Department of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics since its inception. He is a senior Professor in the University who has more than 30 years of experience in academics. He has guided over 25 PhD scholars. His areas of interests are Digital Signal Processing applied to bio- sequences and Machine Learning problems in Sequence Analysis. A native of Thiruvananthapuram city, he had his B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from the College of Engineering, Thiruvananthapuram. He pursued his MTech in IIT, Bombay and took his MPhil from University of Cambridge, UK. He holds two PhDs from University of Kerala, in Engineering and Music. He is also author of a science/ history based novel, Tharipp. He is a heritage and green activist and also a popular science writer. He is recipient of the Teacher Award of Indian National Science Academy in 2014, and was Director of C-DIT, Govt. of Kerala during 2001-2004.