Dr. P. Vinayagam is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. He obtained his Bachelor of Engineering (Civil Engineering) from Coimbatore Institute of Technology and his Master of Engineering (Structural Engineering) and Doctor of Philosophy in Civil Engineering from Government College of Technology affiliated to Bharathiar University, Coimbatore.
                    
He has wide experience in project management and structural design of reinforced concrete and steel structures using software packages.  His major areas of research interest are on composite members and high performance concretes. He has published more than twenty papers in journals and international conferences. He had visited National University of Singapore (NUS) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore.