Dr. Krishnashree Achuthan is Dean of Post Graduate Programs at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, where she heads the Center for Cybersecurity Systems and Networks and the Amrita Technology Business Incubator. She holds a PhD from Clarkson University, New York, and works across cybersecurity and governance, mathematical modelling of systems, IoT security, educational technology and entrepreneurship, with over 150 publications and 34 patents to her credit. She pioneered the development of Virtual Laboratories at Amrita across STEM disciplines and served for over a decade as a coordinator for the Government of India's National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology. She provides faculty leadership and research direction to Maitri-Labs.