THANGAVEL KUTTIANNAN, received the master degree of science from the Department of Mathematics, Bharthidasan University in 1986 and Master of Computer Applications degree from Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai in 2001. He obtained his Ph.D degree from Gandhigram Rural Institute-Deemed University, Gandhigram, Tamilnadu, India in 1996. Currently he is working as a Professor of Computer Science, Periyar University, Salem, Tamilnadu, India. He is in teaching since 1989. His areas of interest include Data mining, Medical Image Processing, Genetic Algorithms, Neural Network, Rough Set Theory, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence..