She has a Masters Degree in Mathematics from the University of Madras (India). She has taken education courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels from Augusta State University leading to a Georgia Educator Certification. In addition, she has taken several computer courses at the undergraduate level: Introduction to Computing, Introduction to Oracle Databases, Oracle Database Administration, Visual Basics.Net, Advanced Visual Basic.Net, Fortran Programming, C-Programming and Pascal Programming. Mrs. Balakrishnan has been a full time faculty member at Paine College since 1989 and the Coordinator of Mathematics and Computer Science since 2001. She has taught mathematics courses during the past twenty years at the lower and upper levels.