Sim Murthy has been a Life Senior Member of IEEE for over 10 years. He studied at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore and Nova Scotia Technical University in Halifax. He has worked for the Northern Canada Power Commission in Edmonton as a Planning and Protection Supervisor, travelling often to the northern communities and power stations. When the Company moved north to its areas of operation, Sim retired from the Commission and taught courses in Power Systems and Power System Protection at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. Later he moved to British Columbia to teach Data Communications and Microprocessors at the College of New Caledonia in Prince George. After retirement Sim moved back to Southern Ontario, the place where he had started as a landed immigrant back in 1967.

Sim has worked for the IEEE in various capacities, over the last 4 decades as Power Engineering Society Chapter Chair, Section Chair, Treasurer in the Northern Canada Section from Edmonton and so on. Sim has various interests even outside electrical engineering, such as in music and Indian classical dance and community affairs. He swims, plays badminton and bridge.