Dr. P Rajalakshmi, is Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, CYIENT Chair Professor in Future Communications, Project Director of Technology Innovation Hub on Autonomous Navigations (TiHAN). Her research areas: Autonomous Navigations, Drone based sensing, wireless communications, Internet of Things, Cyber Physical Systems targeting applications like autonomous transportations – aerial and terrestrial, agriculture, healthcare, environmental monitoring and smart buildings. She has been handling R&D projects funded by industry and Government of India in these areas. Along with fundamental research in IoT/CPS domain, she also emphasizes on translational research. Out of her research activities, she has filed 15 patents, published over 38 Journals and 100 conference peer-reviewed papers. She was awarded Young Faculty Research Fellowship under Visvesvaraya Programme. She is also Member of CII Telangana Digital Transformation and IT Panel since August 2018.