Dr. Balaji is a distinguished academician and technologist with expertise in computer science, engineering, and applied mathematics. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from IISc Bengaluru in 1993, focusing on hard real-time systems. His career spans academia and industry, including a significant tenure at ISRO Satellite Centre, where he contributed to mission and safety-critical space applications, software processes, and satellite control systems.

He has held senior academic positions, including Principal and Vice-Principal, at engineering institutions and has been instrumental in research initiatives in bioinformatics, genomics, and computational sciences. A Fellow of IETE and a Senior Member of IEEE, his research interests include parallel processing, data science, IoT, and mobile computing. He has mentored nine Ph.D. scholars, published over fifty research articles, and contributed to books by Springer and CRC Press. Currently, he serves as a Professor at a research center.