Dr. R.V.Parimala is currently Head of the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BNMIT. She has obtained her bachelors from Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering, Mysore University, M.E (Power Systems) from National Institute of Engineering, Mysore University & Ph.D. (Distribution Automation) from VTU, Belagavi. She has 29 years of teaching experience with 17 publications in reputed International Journals & Conferences Her area of expertise includes Power System, Control System, Artificial Intelligence/Soft Computing, Electrical Machines, Power Quality, etc. Presently, she is guiding two Ph.D. students.

She has won the Best research paper award for the technical paper “Optimal switching operation using knowledge-based colored Petri net”, presented in International Conference held at IET Chennai.She has worked as a Principal Investigator and has successfully completed the funded project from CPRI under RSOP in 2010 involving INR 9.5 lakhs.