Meenakshi holds a Masters’ degree in Computer Applications from NIT Trichy and M.S. by Research from IIT Madras. She joined IIT Madras in the year 1989 and currently working as a Technical Officer. She maintains the Computing Facility at the Department of Management Studies, Caters to the academic and allied needs of the faculty, staff, students and research scholars in the department; Stores, Purchases, Vendor management and so on. For CREST, she heads procurement of hardware, software and maintenance Contracts; External Correspondences; and infrastructure planning and maintenance.

Palani is pursuing his part time program in Bachelor's in Computer Science & Engineering at the SRM Institute of Science and Technology. He has earlier received his Diploma in Computer Engineering. Subsequently, as a Network Engineer in the Computer Centre at IIT Madras, maintained the Network infrastructure of the institute. Currently he is part of the Department of Management Studies as a Junior Technician and provides IT support to faculty and researchers. At CREST, Palani provides mission critical support to maintain the data repository.