Emerging Trends in Electrical, Communications, and Information Technologies Proceedings of ICECIT-2018

Dr. T. Hitendra Sarma received his Ph.D. from the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering at Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Anantapur, India. He has more than 13 years of teaching and research experience and is currently the Principal at Srinivasa Ramanujan Institute of Technology, Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh, India. He has published more than 25 papers in various peer-reviewed International Journals and Conference Proceedings. He has been a reviewer for Pattern Recognition, Pattern Recognition Letters and Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics. He rendered services as Secretary for IEEE CIS/GRSS Society Chapter (2016–2018) and currently serving as Chair IEEE IEEE CIS/GRSS Society Chapter, Hyderabad Section, Region 10 from Jan 2019. He is a member of IEEE, ACM, IE(I) and CSI. His areas of research include Pattern Recognition, Data Mining and Image Processing.               Dr. V. Sankar, Professor in EEE, has 34 years of experience in teaching and 28 years in research. He obtained his Ph.D. in Power Systems from IIT Delhi. He is a senior member of IEEE and a referee for “IEEE Transactions on Reliability”. He has served as Head (Department of EEE), Vice-Principal and Principal of JNTUACE, Anantapur; Director of Academic & Planning, JNTUA; Registrar, JNTUA. He is currently the Chair IEEE Ananthapuramu Sub-Section. Dr. Shaik Rafi Ahamed received his B.Tech. and M.Tech. from Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupathi in 1991 and 1993 respectively. He received his Ph.D. from IIT Kharagpur, and then joined IIT Guwahati. Presently he is working as an Associate Professor at the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering at IIT Guwahati, India. He has published more than 60 research articles in various respected peer-reviewed journals and conferences. His research areas include Adaptive Signal Processing, VLSI Signal Processing, Biomedical Signal Processing and Mobile Communications.