Dr.Jayapal.R completed B.E in Electrical Engineering and M.E in Power Systems in the year 1984 and 1986 respectively from University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, Bangalore University. He Joined RV College of Engineering, Bangalore as Lecturer in Electrical Engineering Department in 1986 and was selected as Assistant professor in 1992 and re designated as Associate Professor in 2010. He completed PhD titled “Design and Implementation of Robust Power System stabilizer using H infinity Loop Shaping Technology” from VTU in 2012. He served as Professor and Head of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department from 2012 to 2018. He was appointed as Principal of RV Institute of Technology and Management (RVITM) in Sept 2018 though he was involved in building the institution from 2016..With an experience of over three decades in the field of education, he feels privileged to be associated in setting up this premier technical institution right from preliminary concepts of planning and design and hence consider it as a rare opportunity.