Dr. V. Sridhar received his B.E. in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the University of Mysore, M.E. (Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering) from Jadavpur University, Calcutta and Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi. He completed his postdoctoral research at the Department of Electrical and Electronics, University Tenaga Nasional, Malaysia. Dr. Sridhar has been working as a Principal of PES College of Engineering for the last 4 years and has been associated with this institute since the beginning of his career in 1980. His fields of interest include VLSI design, digital signal processing, bio-medical engineering & instrumentation and cognitive studies, computer and mobile communications. He was also the Registrar (Evaluation) at Visweswaraya Technological University, Belgaum. He has presented and published numerous papers in national and international peer-reviewed journals and conferences. He has also been a guiding force for M.Sc. and Ph.D. students. He was instrumental in establishing a CAD Center for VLSI Design as a Center of Excellence at the institution. He is a life member of IEEE (M), IETE (F), ISTE (M), and BMSI (M) and has participated in various national and international conferences.

Dr. M.C. Padma received both her B.E. in Computer Science and Engineering and M.Sc. Tech by Research from the University of Mysore, and her Ph.D. from VTU, Belgaum. She has been associated with PES College of Engineering since 1990 and is presently working as a Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Her areas of interest are image processing, pattern recognition, natural language processing, machine translation, artificial intelligence and expert systems, as well as document image analysis and recognition. She has published numerous papers in national and international journals and also guides Ph.D. researchers. She is a life member of ISTE, AKECTA, IVPR, and CSI.

Prof. K.A. Radhakrishna Rao is a Professor and Head of the Department of E&C Engineering, PES College of Engineering. He received his B.E. in Electronics and Communication from the University of Mysore, his M.Tech. from IIT Madras and his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. His research interests include digital processing of biomedical signals, application of nonlinear dynamics to biomedical systems, DSP in video and multimedia applications, embedded systems and PLCs, biometrics and its applications, signal processing in radar absorbers, and the Internet of Things. He has published numerous papers in national and international journals and guides Ph.D. researchers. He is a senior member of IEEE and life member of IETE, ISTE and BMSI.