Dr. Ayyagari Ramakalyan is a Professor-HAG in the Department of Instrumentation & Control Engineering at NIT Tiruchirappalli, with over three decades of research and teaching experience since 1993. He earned his PhD from IIT Delhi in 2000 and specializes in robust control design, dynamic games, algorithms, computational methods, and AI-based control methodologies. His current research interests extend to the control perspective of Economics and Finance, and AI-based Extreme Automation in Fintech, bringing a unique, systems-driven lens to financial modelling and decision-making.