लेखक: S. R. Mahadeva Prasanna

Prof. P.K. Bora (Ph D, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore) is currently a Professor in the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, IIT Guwahati, India. His research interests include image processing, computer vision and application of signal processing techniques to process physiological and communication signals. He has guided 7 Ph D students and over 50 Master’s students. He has co-authored over 100 research papers in journals and conference proceedings. Dr. S.R.M. Prasanna is currently Professor in the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati, India. He was Associate Professor from August 2007 to April 2012 and Assistant Professor from August 2004 to August 2007 in the same department. He obtained Ph D from IIT Madras, MTech from NITK Surathkal and BE from SSIT Tumkur (Bangalore University) in 2004, 1997 and 1994, respectively. His teaching interests include signal processing and speech processing, and research interests include speech and handwriting processing. He has supervised 5 Ph D Theses in the speech processing area. He has over 100 publications to his credit in different conferences and journals. He successfully executed several funded projects in the speech processing area. Dr. Kandarpa Kumar Sarma, currently Associate Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Technology, Gauhati University, Guwahati, Assam, India, has over 17 years of professional experience. He has been into teaching UG/PG level electronics courses including soft computing, mobile communication, pattern recognition, digital signal and image processing. He obtained M.Tech in Signal Processing in 2005 and subsequently completed Ph D in the area of Mobile Communication both from Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, Assam, India. He has authored seven books, several book chapters, several peer-reviewed research papers in international conference proceedings andjournals. His areas of interest are soft-computation and its applications, knowledge aided system design, MIMO, mobile communication, antenna design, speech processing, document image analysis and signal processing applications in high energy physics, neuro-computing and computational models for social-science applications. He is senior member IEEE (USA), Fellow IETE (India), Member International Neural Network Society (INNS, USA), Life Member ISTE (India) and Life Member CSI (India). He serves as an Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Intelligent System Design and Computing (IJISDC, UK), guest editor of several international journals, reviewer of over thirty international journals and reviewer/TPC member of over hundred international conferences. Dr. Navajit Saikia is presently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering at Assam Engineering College, Guwahati, India. He completed his M.Tech and Ph D from IIT Guwahati. Communications and signal processing are the two areas of his teaching interests. He is also looking after the training and placement activities of the college. His research interests include signal processing, image processing, speech processing, information security, etc. He has published several research papers in journals and conference proceedings.