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recognized in Nature
India,Proceedings of IEEE and generated extensive news coverage with leading
tabloids namely The Financial Express, Hindustan Times and Lokmat. He was a
technical consultant for Blue Star InfoTech providing interactive solutions for
segmentation of abdominal aortic aneurysms in collaboration with BARCO, U.K. He
is twice the recipient of Microsoft Travel Award in 2010 and 2012. Currently he
is associated with Department of Electronics and Telecommunication, D. J.
Sanghvi college of Engineering, University of Mumbai and is the IDC coordinator
responsible for development of innovative ideas in association with Department
of Science & Technology (DST) and National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN).
He has over fifty prominent publications in journals and conferences of repute
and authored two books on Applied Mathematics over a teaching carrier spanning
more than ten years. He is an avid international traveler, more recently having
delivered a talk on "Promising textiles, celebrating the Silicon of the Future"
at "Aurel Vlaicu", University of Arad, Romania.



Shabbir N Merchant received his B. Tech, M. Tech,
and PhD degrees all from Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute
of Technology Bombay, India. Currently he is a Professor in Department of
Electrical Engineering at IIT Bombay. He has more than 30 years of experience
in teaching and research. Dr. Merchant has made significant contributions in
the field of signal processing and its applications. His noteworthy
contributions have been in solving state of the art signal and image processing
problems faced by Indian defence. His broad area of research interestsare
wireless communications, wireless sensor networks, signal processing,
multimedia communication, and image processing and has published extensively in
these areas. He is a co-author with his students who have won Best Paper
Awards. He has been a chief investigator for a number of sponsored and
consultancy projects. He has served as a consultant to both private industries
and defence organizations. He is a Fellow of IETE. He is a recipient of 10th
IETE Prof. S. V. C. Aiya Memorial Award for his contribution in the field of
detection and tracking. He is also a recipient of 9th IETE SVC Aiya Memorial
Award for 'Excellence in Telecom Education'. He is a winner of the 2013 VASVIK
Award in the category of Electrical & Electronic Sciences & Technology.



Uday B. Desai received the B. Tech. degree from
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, in 1974, the M.S. degree from
the State University of New York, Buffalo, in 1976, and the Ph.D. degree from
The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, U.S.A., in 1979, all in Electrical
Engineering. Since June 2009 he is the Director of IIT Hyderabad. From 1979 to
1987 he was with the Electrical Engineering Dept. at Washington State
University, Pullman, WA, U.S.A. From 1987 to May 2009 he was a Professor in the
Electrical Engineering. Department at the Indian Institute of Technology -
Bombay. He has held Visiting Associate Professor's position at Arizona State
University, Purdue University, and Stanford University. He was a visiting
Professor at EPFL, Lausanne during the summer of 2002. From July 2002 to June
2004 he was the Director of HP-IITM R and D Lab. at IIT-Madras.