Dr. Sankaran Palani obtained his B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1966 from the University of Madras, M.Tech. in Control Systems Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 1968, and Ph.D. in Control Systems Engineering from the University of Madras in 1982. He has a wide teaching experience of over four decades. He started his teaching career in the year 1968 at the erstwhile Regional Engineering College (now National Institute of Technology), Tiruchirapalli in the department of EEE and occupied various positions. As Professor and Head, he took the initiative to start the Instrumentation and Control Engineering Department. After a meritorious service of over three decades in REC, Tiruchirapalli, he joined Sudharsan Engineering College, Pudukkottai as the founder Principal. He established various departments with massive infrastructure.

He has published more than a hundred research papers in reputed international journals and has won many cash awards. Under his guidance, 17 research scholars were awarded Ph.D. and a large number of scholars are pursuing Ph.D. He has carried out several research projects worth about several lakhs rupees funded by the Government of India and AICTE. As the theme leader of the Indo - UK, REC Project on energy, he has visited many Universities and industries in the United Kingdom. He is the author of the books titled Control Systems Engineering, Signals and Systems, Digital Signal Processing, Linear System Analysis, and Automatic Control Systems. His areas of research include the design of Controllers for Dynamic systems, Digital Signal Processing, and Image Processing. Dr. S. Palani is the reviewer of technical papers of reputed International Journals. He has chaired/organized many International conferences and Workshops