V. UDAYASHANKARA, is Professor and Head in the Department of Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering (SJCE), Mysore. He secured M.E. and Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. He has implemented a large number of research projects in the area of Embedded Systems and Signal Processing. His research interests include Rehabilitation Engineering, Speech Signal Processing and Biomedical Signal Processing. He has published and presented more than 100 research papers in various journals and conferences.