Prof. N. R. Shetty is Chancellor of Central University of Karnataka, Kalaburagi, and Chairman of the Review Commission for the State Private University Karnataka. He is currently serving as an advisor to the Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology (NMIT), Bengaluru. He is also Founder Vice-President of the International Federation of Engineering Education Societies (IFEES), Washington DC, USA. He served as Vice Chancellor of Bangalore University for two terms and President of the ISTE, New Delhi three terms. He was also Member of the Executive Committee of the AICTE and Chairman of its South West Region Committee.Prof. L. M. Patnaik obtained his Ph.D. in 1978 in the area of Real-Time Systems and D.Sc. in 1989 in the areas of Computer Systems and Architectures, both from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru. During March 2008 to August 2011, he was Vice Chancellor, Defence Institute of Advanced Technology, Deemed University, Pune. Currently, he is Honorary Professor with the Department of Electronic Systems Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, and INSA Senior Scientist and Adjunct Professor with the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru. During the last 50 years of his long service, his teaching, research, and development interests have been in the areas of parallel and distributed computing, computer architecture, CAD of VLSI systems, high-performance computing, mobile computing, theoretical computer science, real-time systems, soft computing and computational neuroscience including machine cognition. In these areas, he has 1286 publications in refereed international journals and refereed international conference proceedings including 30 technical reports, 43 books and 26 chapters in books.Dr. H. C. Nagaraj was born on 4th April, 1959 in Bengaluru. He obtained his B.E. Degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering securing first class with distinction from the University of Mysore in 1981. He obtained his M.E. in Communication Systems from P. S. G. College of Technology, Coimbatore, Bharathiyar University in 1984 and secured first rank. He got his doctoral degree in the area of Biomedical Signal Processing and Instrumentation from Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai in 2000. He assumed charge as Principal, Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology, Bengaluru in September 2003 and till date he is serving as Principal. He has about 38 years of experience in teaching, research and administration. During his term as Principal in NMIT, Bengaluru, the institution has been conferred with Autonomous Status by the Visvesvaraya Technological University, Government of Karnataka and UGC, New Delhi; accredited by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council, National Board of Accreditation, AICTE, New Delhi for UG programmes, and a pico satellite weighing less than 1 kg was designed and fabricated and handed over to ISRO and was launched on 12th July 2010 from Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, India. Dr. H. C. Nagaraj has published a number of papers in National and International Journals, Conferences and delivered invited talks in the field of Biomedical Signal Processing, Image Processing, Mobile Communication etc. He got the Best Paper Award in the National Conference of Biomechanics held during February 22–24, 1996 at IIT Madras. He was awarded the Best Paper Award at State Level Seminar on “Introduction of Flexible System in Technical Education” held by the Government of Karnataka during February 1999 in Bengaluru. He has guided several students for their Ph.D. programmes and written a book titled VLSI Circuits published in 2006 for B.E. Students. He is a member of expert teams visiting various colleges for accreditation by NAAC and affiliation of UG, PG and Ph.D. programmes under Electronics and Communication, Biomedical Engineering Streams, on behalf Institution of Engineers, Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum and Kuvempu University, Shimoga. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), Life member of ISTE, Life Member of Biomedical Engineering Society of India and Member of Global Engineering Deans Council India Chapter (GEDCIC). Dr. Nagaraj has visited countries like USA, Canada, UK, Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea, Hungary etc. in connection with collaboration for academic activities. Presently, he is the Member of the Academic Senate at Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), Belagavi. He is also the Member of Court at Pondicherry University and Member of Expert Team for the evaluation of R&D projects funded by VTU.Dr. Prasad N. Hamsavath is currently working as Professor and Head of the Department of Master of Computer Applications at Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology, Bengaluru. He completed his Ph.D. at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. Dr. Prasad has more than 12 years of experience in different roles in both public and private sector enterprises, including the Ministry of Human Resource and Development, New Delhi, Government of India. He has received the prestigious “Dr. Abdul Kalam Life Time Achievement Award” and also received a “Young Faculty” award at the 2nd Academic Brilliance Awards.Dr. N. Nalini is currently working as Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology, Bengaluru. She received her M.S. from BITS, Pilani, in 1999, and her Ph.D. from Visvesvaraya Technological University in 2007. She has more than 17 years of teaching and 10 years of research experience. She has several international publications to her credit, and has received the “Bharath Jyothi Award” by Dr. Bhishma Narain Singh, Former Governor of Tamil Nadu and Assam, given out by the India International Friendship Society. She is Lifetime Member of the ISTE, CSI, ACEEE and IIFS.
