Paramasivam Venkatesh received his B.S.E.E and Masters degree in Power System Engineering with Distinction and Ph.D. in 1991, 1994 and 2003, respectively, from Madurai Kamaraj University, India. His area of interest is application of evolutionary computation techniques to power system problems and power system restructuring. He has received the Boyscast Fellowship award in the year 2006 from Department of Science and Technology, India for carrying out Post Doctoral Research Work at the Pennsylvania State University, U.S.A. Currently he is Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Thiagarajar college of Engineering, Madurai, India.