Dr. Y.B. Venkatakrishnan serves as the Academic Directorate and Director of Online & Distance Education at SASTRA Deemed University. A distinguished professor with over three decades of teaching experience, he is the recipient of the Guru Sreshta Award for Best Pedagogical Teaching.
His research spans Graph Theory, with 80+ peer-reviewed publications indexed in Scopus and SCI. He has completed funded research projects under NBHM and DST, and currently holds the prestigious title of Indo-G20 Chair Professor in Mathematics.
Dr. Venkatakrishnan is a Life Member of the Ramanujan Mathematical Society (RMS), ADMA, and several other leading mathematical associations. He also contributes internationally as an invited reviewer for both the American Mathematical Society and Zentralblatt MATH.