D. Jeya Mala has a Ph.D. in Software Engineering with Specialization on Software Testing and is Associate Professor in Thiagarajar College of Engineering, –a leading educational and philanthropic institution in Tamil Nadu, India. She had been in the industry for about 4 years. She has a profound teaching and research experience of more than 15 years. She has recieved “Best Techno Faculty Award” from ICT Academy of Tamil Nadu, a Govt. Initiative. Also, she is the proud recipient of “Best Poster Award - 2016” from Indian Science Congress Association, an Initiative of DST, Govt. of India. She has also received 'Certificate of Excellence' from IIT-Bombay in successfully completing the FDP101x and FDP201x with score above 95%. She has published a book on “Object Oriented Analysis and Design using UML” for Tata McGraw Hill Publishers. She has published more than fifty (50) papers about her research works at leading international journals and conferences such as IET, ACM, Springer, World Scientific, Computing and Informatics etc. As a researcher, Dr. Jeya Mala had investigated practical aspects of software engineering and object oriented paradigms for effective software development. Her work on Software Testing has fetched grants from UGC under Major Research Project scheme. Her dissertation has been listed as one of the best Ph.D. thesis in the CSIR – Indian Science Abstracts. She has successfully guided numerous Software Development based projects for the IBM- The Great Mind Challenge (TGMC) contest. The project she has mentored during 2007, has received national level Best Top 10 Project Award – 2007, from IBM. Currently she is guiding Ph.D. and M.Phil research scholars under the areas of Software Engineering and optimization techniques. She is a life member of Computer Society of India and an invited member of ACEEE. She forms the reviewer board in Journals like IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Elsevier – Information Sciences, Springer, World Scientific, International Journal of Metaheuristics etc. She has organized several sponsored national level conferences and workshops, notably she is one of the organizers of “Research Ideas in Software Engineering and Security (RISES’13) – A run-up event of ICSE 2014 sponsored by Computer Society of India”. She has been listed in Marquis Who’s Who list in 2011 onwards. She has chaired several national and international conferences notably she is the organizing chair of International Congress on Software Engineering held at Thailand during 2014. She is a proud recipient of several laurels from industries like Honeywell, IBM and Microsoft for her remarkable contributions in the field of Software Development and Object Orientation.