Dr.P.V.Suresh ( pvsuresh@ignou.ac.in ) is Professor and currently Director of School of Computers and Information Sciences, Indira Gandhi National Open University. IGNOU is a NAAC A++ accredited University. He has done his PhD in Computer Science & Technology from Acharya Nagarjuna University, Andhra Pradesh. He developed the first portal for IGNOU . He was member of Joint Coordination Committees with Nokia and Ericcson. He played active role in the implementation of MOU with Nokia wherein multilingual SMS support was provided to students of English Language Programme. He also took the initiative of implementation of SMS Alerts Service at IGNOU which connected its millions of students with IGNOU Headquarters at New Delhi and Regional Centers across the Country. He also took the initiative of first LIVE webcast of IGNOU Convocation in collaboration with NIC. He published papers in SCOPUS indexed International Journals as well as presented papers in International Conferences. He was associated with Universities in India and abroad. He was also associated with AICTE and other bodies. He was also trained in eLearning technologies for 6 weeks in University of Colombo which was mostly sponsored by JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency). He also acted as resource person for topics in eLearning, Data Mining , Machine learning apart from other areas in ICT. He is also Course Coordinator of MOOC titled “Web based Technologies and Multimedia Applications” on SWAYAM. Till date , a total of more than 20000 students enrolled to it. Currently, in addition to his duties as Director, He is also coordinating research activities of the department. He was also principal investigator of IGNOU-COL (Commonwealth of Learning) project through which OER based courses in the areas of Mobile architecture , and iOS are developed. His research papers attracted travel grants. He presented research papers in Conferences in India and abroad. He also made academic visits to China, Sri Lanka, Mauritius, Malaysia , United Kingdom. He visited Cambridge and Oxford Universities as part of his tour in UK. He guided Doctoral research in areas of Software Engineering. Currently, he is guiding Doctoral Research in Data Mining, Machine Learning and Cloud Computing.