P.K. Sinha read Mathematics (Honours) with physics and chemistry at the University of Calcutta, and electrical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He earned his doctorate in control engineering from the University of Sussex, England.

Dr Sinha has been on the faculty of the University of Sussex, the University of Warwick, and the University of Reading. He is an emeritus professor at the University of Reading and an independent consultant.

Over the past two decades, he has worked as a senior technical staff with Philips Semiconductors (IC Competence Centre, Southampton, England), Thales Air Defence (Belfast, Northern Ireland), Raytheon Systems (Glenrothes, Scotland) and VTOL Technologies/Collins Aerospace (Reading).

Dr Sinha has worked as a specialist consultant to numerous organisations in the EU, Japan, Taiwan, the UK and the US, including British Gas Research (Killingworth, England), British Telecommunications (Martlesham Heath, England), Dunlop Engineering (Coventry, England), Ford Motors (Laindon, England, and Detroit, MI), General Motors (Dearborn, MI), Hewlett Packard (Reading, England), Japan Airlines (Tokyo), Mitac Corporation (Taipei, Taiwan) and Urban Transport Development Corporation (Toronto, Canada). He has held visiting professorships at universities in Taiwan and Japan.

Dr Sinha is the sole author of four other books: Multivariable Control: An Introduction (Marcel Dekker, New York), Microprocessors for Engineers: Interfacing for Real-Time Control (Ellis Horwood/Prentice Hall, Chichester), Electromagnetic Suspension: Dynamics and Control (IEE Press, London) and Image Acquisition and Pre-Processing for Machine Vision Systems (SPIE Press, Bellingham, WA).