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Authors

Madhuri A. Joshi, Ph.D., is professor of electronics at the College of

Engineering, Pune. She has more than 38 years of teaching experience. Dr.

Joshi has been a commonwealth scholar for research at the Manchester

Institute of Science and Technology, Manchester; and the recipient of the fol-

lowing: Best Teacher Award 2010–2011 from the Maharashtra Government,

India; IETE–Professor S.V.C. Aiya Memorial Gold Medal (2011) for excellence

in research; and the Award for Excellence in Telecom Education (2011). She has

authored three books, Electronic Components and Materials (Shroff Publishers,

2004), Digital Image Processing, an Algorithmic Approach (PHI Learning Pvt.

Ltd., 2006), and Introduction to Embedded System Design (Indian Society for

Technical Education, 2010). In addition, she has written 137 papers including

75 at the international level.

Mehul S. Raval, Ph.D. (electronics and telecommunication engineering), is

an associate professor at the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET),

Ahmedabad University, with a research interest in image and signal pro-

cessing. He has more than 17 years of teaching and research experience.

Dr. Raval is the recipient of the Best Engineering College Teacher Award for

the State of Gujarat from the Indian Society for Technical Education and a

Young Scientist Fellowship from the Government of Gujarat in 2005. He is

a senior member of IEEE and has published extensively in peer-reviewed

journals and conferences. Currently, Dr. Raval serves as the vice chair for the

IEEE Gujarat Section.

Yogesh H. Dandawate, Ph.D. (electronics and telecommunication engi-

neering), received a bachelor of engineering from the University of Pune

(India) in 1991, a masters of engineering from Gulbarga University (India)

in 1998, and a Ph.D. in electronics and telecommunications engineering

from the University of Pune (India) in 2009. Presently, he is a professor in

the Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering at

Vishwakarma Institute of Information Technology, Pune. Dr. Dandawate

has 22 years of teaching experience and has published more than 43 papers

in reputed national and international conferences and referred journals. His

areas of interest include signal and image processing, embedded systems,

and soft computing. He is senior member of the IEEE, and a fellow member

of IETE, India.

Kalyani R. Joshi, Ph.D., is principal and professor of electronics and tele-

communications at P.E.S. Modern College of Engineering, Pune. She has

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more than 24 years of teaching experience. Dr. Joshi has authored 27 papers,

including 11 at the international level.

Shilpa Prabhakar Metkar, Ph.D., is an assistant professor with the

Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering Department, College

of Engineering, Pune (an autonomous institute of the Government of

Maharashta). She is the recipient of the gold medal in third year, and third

university ranker in nal year of engineering. Dr. Metkar has 10 years of

teaching experience. She is a recipient of the prestigious Career Award for

Young Teachers (2013) and the All India Council of Technical Education

and the Institution of Engineers—Young Engineers Award (2013–2014). Dr.

Metkar has published six papers in national conferences, fourteen papers in

international conferences, and four papers in international journals.