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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 Algorithm ...