Prof.  Durgamadhab Misra is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). His current research focus is VLSI, Nanoelectronics and study of nanoscale CMOS gate stacks. He has more than 140 publications in international journals and conferences. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of Electron Device Society of IEEE and a Fellow of the Electrochemical Society (ECS).

Amit Kumar Mishra(M'01) received the B.E. Degree from National Institute of Technology Rourkela (formerly Regional Engineering College Rourkela), in 2001, and PhD, degree from University of Edinburgh, UK, in 2006. After receiving the B.E. Degree, he worked 1 year in defence R\&D organization (DRDO), India and 1 year in Wipro Technologies. He has been with ECE department, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati since 2006. His research interests are in pattern recognition, radar signal processing, VLSI DSP and ultrawideband (UWB) systems. He is the recipient of IETE (IRSI) young scientist award for the year 2008.

Chitta Baral is a professor at the Arizona State University. He obtained his B.Tech(Hons) degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 1987 and his M.S and Ph.D degrees from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1990 and 1991 respectively. He has been working in the field of knowledge representation and logic programming since 1988, and his research has been supported over the years by National Science Foundation, NASA, and United Space Alliance. He received the NSF CAREER award in 1995 and led successful teams to AAAI 96 and 97 robot contests. He has published more than 100 articles in Logic Programming, Knowledge Representation, and Artificial Intelligence conferences and Journals. His book titled ``Knowledge Representation, Reasoning, and Declarative Problem Solving'' is the first book about answer set programming and was published by Cambridge University Press in 2003.  For more about him please see  http://www.public.asu.edu/~cbaral/.

Jagdish C. Patra obtained B.Sc. (Engg. with Hons.) and M.Sc. (Engg.) degrees, both in Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering from Sambalpur University, India in 1978 and 1989, respectively. He received Ph.D. degree in Electronics & Communication Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, in 1996. He served as a faculty member at Regional Engineering College (now known as NIT), Rourkela during 1987-2000. Since 2001 he is serving as an assistant professor in the School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research interests include intelligent signal processing using neural networks in the areas of digital communication, data security, sensor networks, image processing and bioinformatics. He has several publications in international conferences and journals of repute in these research areas. He had been to few international universities, e.g., Technical University, Delft, Netherlands, University of Iwate, Japan, University of Tampere, Finland, and University of Applied Sciences, HEIG-VD, Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland, as visiting researcher. He is a member of IEEE (USA).

Dr Gagan Rath received the B.Tech (Hons) degree in Electronics and Electrical
Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) at Kharagpur in 1990, and the M.E. and Ph.D degrees in Electrical Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore in 1993 and 1999 respectively. He is currently a senior research scientist at INRIA in France. His research interests include signal processing for communications, wireless communications, and compressed sensing.

Dr. Woddi obtained his MS and PhD degrees in Nuclear Engineering from Texas A&M University. He currently serves as the Risk and Reliability Analyst for Scientech: A Curtiss-Wright Flow Control Company and provides consulting services to nuclear power plants for meeting the regulatory standards. Dr. Woddi had served as a licensed reactor operator at CANDU nuclear power plant in India.  He wrote the first thesis on the RACE project endeavor of waste transmutation in May 2005. He also contributed to non-proliferation studies through assessment of nuclear fuel of India. He is presently in the industry of nuclear power plant safety and risk assessment. He has published articles on the feasibility of temperature feedback accelerator-driven sub-critical reactor systems, nuclear fuel cycle of India and impact of the U.S.-India nuclear accord.

Shivajit Mohapatra is a Senior Researcher and Project Leader at the Pervasive Platforms and Architectures Lab at Motorola Research. His research focus is in the area of distributed and mobile middleware systems. He currently designs mobile middleware systems that enable energy efficient next-generation distributed and social applications on mobile systems. He is also interested in the areas of game theory, Incentive models and security for mobile environments. His professional service has included serving as program (co-) chair for CoPE 2009 and has served in the committees for ACM Multimedia, ACM WoWMoM, and ACM MMCN. He is also a recent inductee into the Marquis Who's Who in America. Shivajit holds a B.Tech from BITS, Pilani and an M.S. and Ph.D. from University of California, Irvine, all in Computer Science.

Saraju P. Mohanty is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of North Texas (UNT) and the founding director of the VLSI Design and CAD Laboratory (VDCL). He obtained his Ph.D. from University of South Florida, ranked among the top 50 public Universities in the USA with leadership in low-power VLSI research, in Fall 2003. He obtained his masters in System Science and Automation from the highest ranked institute from India, the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in 1999. His bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering (with Honors) is from the College of Engineering and Technology, Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology, Bhubaneswar that ranks among top 50 engineering institutes in India. His research is in “Design and CAD for Low-Power High-Performance Nanoscale Digital and Analog/Mixed-Signal VLSI”. He researches on power, leakage, and performance models, incorporates them in CAD flow through optimization methodology, and demonstrates them through computational intensive multimedia applications. His research is currently funded by National Science Foundation (NSF) and Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC). Dr. Mohanty is an author of 85+ peer-reviewed top-notch journal (including ACM/IEEE transactions) and conference publications, many of which have been nominated for best paper awards. They have received worldwide citations, a total of approximately 175, till date. He is an author of a book titled “Low-Power High-Level Synthesis for Nanoscale CMOS Circuits”, published in July 2008. He serves on the program committee of several international conferences. He is a senior member of IEEE.