Dr. B. Sathish Babu is a Professor and Principal at M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bengaluru, with over 35 years of experience in computer science education and research. His career has spanned some of Karnataka's prominent engineering institutions, from Sri Siddartha Institute of Technology, Tumkur, where he began as a Lecturer in 1991, to nearly two decades at Siddaganga Institute of Technology, and finally to R V College of Engineering, Bengaluru, where he most recently served as Professor and Head of the AI & ML Department before assuming his current role in June 2026.

He holds a Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore, where his doctoral research focused on cognitive-agent-based security and authentication for mobile transactions. His thesis was recognized as the best Ph.D. thesis by BITES-Karnataka in 2009. His earlier degrees, a B.E. and an M.E. in Computer Science and Engineering, are from Bangalore University.

His research spans mobile and wireless network security, cloud and fog computing, quantum computing, big data analytics, AI and machine learning, and, more recently, the application of AI to human resource management and higher education. He has published more than 60 peer-reviewed journal papers, including in Elsevier's Computer Communications and IEEE Access, 50+ international conference papers, and 20 book chapters published by CRC Press, Springer Nature and Elsevier. He has co-authored two textbooks, Mobile and Wireless Network Security (Tata McGraw-Hill, 2010) and Communication Protocol Engineering (PHI India, 2014). Five patents were filed in 2025, covering AI-based financial fraud detection, remote vision screening, and autonomous speed regulation for heavy vehicles.

Dr. Babu has guided 11 Ph.D. scholars and secured research funding from the Government of India (DIT), UKIERI, VTU, CySecK, and AICTE. His consultancy projects have engaged organizations ranging from Toyota Industries and ABB Bangalore to a UK-based medical surgery practice. His international research collaborations include joint publications with researchers at Imperial College London, Florida International University, the University of Eastern Finland, and the University of Memphis.

He has served on Boards of Studies and Examinations for institutions affiliated with VTU and other universities, chaired multiple editions of the IEEE conferences, conducted ATAL FDPs, and delivered nearly 100 invited talks and keynote addresses at national and international forums in India, the United States, and Europe. He is also a reviewer for several Scopus- and Web of Science-indexed journals, including IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence and the Journal of Supercomputing.