Mr.S.Chandra Sekar is a Microsoft Certified professional, youngest Microsoft Certified System Engineer and a Cisco Certified Network Associate. He has now joined IIT-Madras for an M. Tech. in computer science. What's the big deal? Well, he is only 15.

          On August 4, this Teengagerfrom Tirunelveli in Tamil Nandu Became the youngest to join IIT- adras to do an M-Tech.. He qualified by scoring 99.32% in the graduate test in engineering.

         My goal is to serve the nation. My area of study will be information security and cryptography. Network security has become important because of increasing Net transfers. Almost all industries need it for safe transfer of data that would reach only the intended destination. I am working with my  professors to identify the specify aspects of information security," Chandra Sekar, hose role model is Infosys chief N.R. Narayanamurthy told TOI.

        The only people not surprised are his auditor father and banker mother. "The admission was expected as he was aiming for it. " said his father K Subramaniam, who had initiated his son into computers at the age of four. "We realized his talents at a tender age and introduced him to Microsoft quality test that helped him get the certification." he added.

          It was at the age of 10 that Chandra sekar come into the limelight for his expertise in computers. As a child prodigy, he had begun programming on his own when he was eight. At nine, he was a Microsoft Certified professional and earned the youngest Microsoft Certified Systems Engeer Certificate at 10.

         The  following year he got the Cisco Certified Network Associate Certified. These are achievement that students usually attain in their late 20s.