Defence Science Journal

Madasu Hanmandlu
IIT Delhi
India

Dr Madasu Hanmandlu received his MTech (Power systems) from REC Warangal, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU), India, in 1976, and PhD (Control Systems) from Indian Institute of Technology(IIT), Delhi, India, in 1981. Presently working as Professor in Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT, Delhi. He worked in the areas of Power Systems, Control, Robotics and Computer Vision, before shifting to fuzzy theory. His current research interests mainly include: Fuzzy modeling for dynamic systems and applications of fuzzy logic to image processing, document processing, medical imaging, multimodal biometrics, surveillance and intelligent control.He has authored a book on Computer Graphics and published more than 220 publications in both conferences and journals.He has guided 15 PhDs and 100 MTech students.

Anirban Das
High Tech Robotic Systems Ltd., Gurgaon
India

Dr Anirban Das received MCA from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi in 1999, MTech (Computer Sci. Engg) from IIT Delhi in 2002 and PhD (Computer Sci.) from Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi in 2008. He is currently working with R Systems International Ltd. as Technical Architect for biometric system development. His research interests include: Image processing, computer vision, pattern recognition, biometric authentication, and artificial intelligence