Samit AriDr. Samit Ari received B. Tech in Electronics and Tele-communication Engineering degree from University of Kalyani and M. Tech degree in Instrumentation Engineering from University of Calcutta. He completed Ph.D in Electronics and Electrical Communiction Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur. He joined National Institute of Technology (NIT) Rourkela as a faculty member in 2009, where he presently holds the position of Associate Professor in the department of Electronics and Communication Engineering. He is an accomplished researcher with strong research background in Signal Processing, Image processing, Data Modeling, Biomedical Signal and Image Processing, Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence. Currently, he is Professor-in-charge of Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence Lab, Dept. of Electronics and Communication Enginnering, NIT Rourkela. Dr. Ari is a member of IEEE and IEEE signal processing society. Currently, he is also Associate Editor of IET Image Processing Journal. He has published more than sixty research articles in reputed journals (like IEEE, IET, Elsevier, Springer etc.) and conferences. He has guided four PhD, and supervised more than fifty M. Tech and more than forty B. Tech projects. He handles number of projects funded by DRDO, SERB etc. in the area of Signal and Image processing, Artificial Intelligence. He is a reviewer of IEEE, IET, Elsevier and other international journal papers. Read More Read Less