Sathishkumar Samiappan (M'12) received the B.E. degree in electronics and communication engineering from Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, India, in 2003 and the M.Tech degree in computer science, with a major in computer vision and image processing, from Amrita University, Coimbatore, India, in 2006. Since 2009, he has been working toward the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering at Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS. Until 2009, he was a Lecturer in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Amrita University, Coimbatore, India. Since 2009, he has been a Graduate Research Assistant with Geosystems Research Institute and Graduate Teaching Assistant with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS. His research interests include big data problems, pattern recognition, image processing, machine learning and hyperspectral image classification.