Prof. L.M. Patnaik obtained his Ph.D in 1978 in the area of Real-Time Systems, D.Sc. in 1989 in the areas of Computer Systems and Architectures, both from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He also served as Vice Chancellor, Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT), Deemed University, Pune. Prior to this he was a Professor with the Department of Computer Science and Automation at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. During the last 37 years of his service at the Institute, his teaching, research, and development interests have been in the areas of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Computer Architecture, CAD of VLSI Systems, Theoretical Computer Science, Real-Time Systems, Soft Computing, and Computational Neuroscience.
Prof. L.M. Patnaik served as the President of the Advanced Computing and Communications Society, and the Computational Intelligence Society of India. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Region 10. He is a Distinguished Visitor of the IEEE Computer Society for the Asia-Pacific Region.
Prof. L.M. Patnaik is a Life Member of the VLSI Society of India, and Instrument Society of India, a founder Member of the Executive Committee of the Association for the Advancement of Fault-Tolerant and Autonomous Systems.

His name appears in Asia’s Who's Who of Men and Women of Achievement; Directory of Distinguished Computer Professionals of India. For over one hundred and fifty International Conferences, he has served as General Chair or Program Chair or Steering Committee Chair; most of them sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He has served on several significant committees of leading professional societies

Dr. Pradeep K Sinha

Dr. Pradeep K Sinha is a senior member of the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC). Currently, he holds three prestigious positions at C-DAC. These are Senior Director (Corporate Strategy and R&D), Senior Director (High Performance Computing) and Chairman (Academic Council). Before joining C-DAC, Dr. Sinha was with Multimedia Systems Research Laboratory of Panasonic in Tokyo, Japan.
At C-DAC, Dr. Sinha has been deeply involved in the design and development of PARAM series of supercomputers. He was also instrumental in the setup and operation of C-DAC’s National PARAM Supercomputing Facility (NPSF) at Pune, the Terascale Supercomputing Facility (CTSF) at Bangalore, and the National Grid Garuda infrastructure. These systems and facilities have helped several researchers from various Science and Engineering disciplines to carry out their research effectively
Dr. Sinha is currently spearheading the National HPC mission at CDAC to build yet more powerful and usable supercomputers in India. He has also initiated unique capability building programs for proliferation of HPC technologies. Dr. Sinha is a researcher, scientist, inventor, and internationally acclaimed author of computer textbooks, with more than twenty-five years of professional experience. He has significantly contributed to the advancement of science & technology and technical education. He holds two international patents and has authored a multiple number of technical papers and six books. Books authored by him are published and marketed by several national and international publishers. Indian, American, and other Universities across the globe cite his books as textbooks for their courses. A Japanese language edition of one of his books is used in Japanese Universities.

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), USA recently conferred the recognition of IEEE Fellow upon Dr. Sinha for Leadership in Distributed and Parallel Processing Systems. He had earlier received the recognition of “ACM Distinguished Engineer” from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), USA for significant accomplishments in, and impact on, the computing field. Dr. Sinha also received the “Vasvik Research Award” for the year 2011 in the category of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) for his contributions towards advancements in this area, Intel Path Finder Award, GREEN Top500 and and many more. Dr. Sinha did his Ph.D. in Distributed Computing Systems from the University of Tokyo, Japan, his Master in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT, Madras, and his Engineering in Computer Science from NIT, Allahabad.

Pramod Kumar Meher

Pramod Kumar Meher received the first class degrees of BSc (Honours) and MSc in Physics, and PhD in Science, all from Sambalpur University, Sambalpur, India in 1976, 1978, and 1996, respectively.
Currently, Pramod Kumar Meher is a Senior Research Scientist in the School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Previously, He was a Senior Scientist in the Department of Embedded Systems, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore. He was a Professor of Computer Applications at Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, India during 1997-2002, a Reader in Electronics at Berhampur University, Berhampur, India during 1993-1997, and a Lecturer in Physics in various Government Colleges in India during 1981-1993.
The main area of his research interest is design of dedicated and reconfigurable architectures for computation-intensive algorithms pertaining to signal processing, image processing, communication, intelligent computing, and bioinformatics. He have listed some of my journal publications and the contributions to conferences on two separate pages. Recently, He is tending his research towards more fundamental aspects of hardware design including the quantum dot cellular automata and mapping algorithms to heterogenous 3-D stacks.
After serving as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems and IEEE Transactions on Circuits & Systems, He wish to take up more professional activities, and contribute more to the community in the coming years.
Regarding his professional qualification and membership of professional societies, He would like to mention that, He is a Chartered Engineer of the Engineering Council of United Kingdom, a Senior Member of IEEE, a Fellow of The Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE) of India, a Life Member of Computer Society of India, and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) UK. IET was formerly known as the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE).
It is pleasant to remember that He was conferred with the Samanta Chandrasekhar Award for excellence in research in Engineering & Technology for the year 1999. This is awarded by the state Orissa (to which He belong) in India every year to one researcher in the field of Engineering & Technology. One of our papers has received the 2013 Sydney R. Parker Best Paper award in Signal Processing and 2013 M. N. S. Swamy Best Paper Award of the Springer Journal of Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing (CSSP). This paper has been considered the best amongst all the papers published in 2012 and 2013 in the Springer Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing.