Dr. Krithika Ramaswamy is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, IIT Palakkad, India. She graduated B.E in Computer Science and Engineering from SSN College of Engineering, Anna University, Chennai and his post-graduated MS (by Research) as well as PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India. His primary research interest is in the area of design and analysis of efficient algorithms for computationally hard problems. Specifically, my focus is in designing fixed-parameter tractable and approximation algorithms for various hard combinatorial optimization problems on graphs.