Dr. Subbiah Brindha, HoD, PSG Polytechnic College, Coimbatore Tamil Nadu.

Dr. Subbiah Brindha is a passionate teacher and Head of Computer Networking department, PSG Polytechnic College, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. She has been teaching diploma students for more than 20 years and majority of them consider her as their role-model. More importantly, Dr. Brinda encourages young girls in large numbers to pursue a career in the computer networking field which is still a male dominated sector. Being highly qualified, she received multiple lucrative job offers from degree institutions but rejected all and chose to continue with polytechnic college as she believes that a large number of students from socio-economically backward backgrounds join polytechnic courses and create an impact that is critical for overall upliftment of society. Dr. Brinda had developed multiple industry connections for her institution which has enabled a large number of students to get internships and employment. She also helped establish an industry sponsored IoT laboratory in her institution and under her leadership a new Diploma Programme on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning has started. She was also instrumental in obtaining NBA Accreditation for the department of Computer Engineering two times in 2011 and 2021 which is commendable achievement for a diploma institution.