Emerging Trends in Communication and Signal Processing

Chalavadi Vishnu received his B.Tech (CSE) from JNTU Hyderabad in 2016 and M.Tech (CSE) and Ph.D (CSE) from IIT Hyderabad, India during 2018 and 2022 respectively. He has also successfully completed his post-doctoral research from University of Agder, Norway in 2023. Currently he is working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at IIT Tirupati. His research interests include learning representations of video activities and drone data, autonomous vehicles, Aerial Imagery Analysis.

Abdul Lateef Haroon P S received a B.E in Electronics and Communication Engineering RYMEC, Ballari, Karnataka, India. He holds an M.Tech., Degree in VLSI Design and Embedded Systems from K S School of Engineering and Management, Karnataka, India. He obtained a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering Sciences from Visvesvaraya Technological University Belagavi, Karnataka, India. Currently, he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engg., at BITM Ballari, Karnataka, India. He has published many papers in international and national journals and conference proceedings. Dr. Haroon holds three patents. He has around 12 years of teaching and research experience. Sujata N. Patil is currently working as a professor in the Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering at KLE Technological University, Hubballi. She holds a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence-based medical image analysis from KLE Academy of Higher Education & Research, Belagavi. With over two decades of academic and research experience, she specializes in developing AI/ML models for medical imaging, including applications in IVF embryo grading, prostate cancer histology, breast cancer detection, Alzheimer's disease, and neuroimaging. She has served as a Machine Learning Engineer at Thomas Jefferson University, USA, where she worked on prostate cancer image analysis using CNNs, DNNs, and attention-based networks. Dr. Patil has been Principal Investigator for multiple funded projects, including a Center of Excellence in AI (VGST, Govt. of Karnataka), and has contributed to NIH grant proposals. She has authored several peer-reviewed publications in high-impact journals such as Scientific Reports and Remote Sensing. Her research interests span medical image analysis, deep learning, computer vision, and healthcare innovation.