Brajesh Kumar Kaushik received the B.E. degree in Electronics andCommunication Engineering from the D.C.R. University of Science and Technology(formerly C. R. State College ofEngineering), Murthal, Haryana, in 1994, the M.Tech degree in EngineeringSystems from Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra, India, in 1997, and the PhDdegree under AICTE-QIP scheme from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee,Roorkee, India, in 2007. He served at Vinytics Peripherals Pvt. Ltd., Delhifrom 1997 to 1998 as the Research and Development Engineer for microprocessor-,microcontroller-, and DSP processor-based systems.Hejoined the department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, G.B. PantEngineering College, Pauri Garhwal, Uttarakhand, India as a Lecturer in July,1998, where later he served as an Assistant Professor from May 2005 to May 2006and an Associate Professor from May 2006 to December 2009. He is currentlyserving as Associate Professor in the departmentof Electronics and CommunicationEngineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. His research interestsinclude high-speed interconnects, low-power VLSI design, carbon nanotube-baseddesigns, organic thin-film transistor design and modeling, andspintronics-based devices and circuits. He has published extensively in severalnational and international journals and conferences of repute. Dr. Kaushik is areviewer of many international journals belonging to various publication housessuch as IEEE, IET, Elsevier, Springer, Emerald, Taylor and Francis, etc. He hasalso delivered many keynote addresses in reputed international and nationalconferences. He holds theposition of Editor and Editor-in-Chief of various journals in the field of VLSIand Microelectronics. Dr. Kaushik isEditor-in-Chief of International Journal of VLSI Design and CommunicationSystem (VLSICS), AIRCC Publishing Corporation. He also holds the positionof Editor of Microelectronics Journal (MEJ), Elsevier Inc.; Journalof Engineering, Design and Technology (JEDT), Emerald Group PublishingLimited; and Journal of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Research(JEEER), Academic Journals. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and has receivedmany awards and recognitions from the International Biographical Center,Cambridge, U.K. His name has been listed in Marquis Who´s Who in Science andEngineering and Marquis Who´s Who in the World. Vobulapuram Ramesh Kumarreceived the B.Tech degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering fromBapatla Engineering College, Andhra Pradesh, in 2007, and the M.Tech degreefrom National Institute of Technology Hamirpur, in 2010. He is currentlyworking towards the PhD degree from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee,India. His current research interests include time domain numerical methods toapproach fast transients characterization techniques, modeling of VLSI on-chipinterconnects, carbon based nano interconnects and through silicon vias. Amalendu Patnaikreceived his PhD in Electronics from Berhampur University in 2003. He is currentlyserving as Associate Professor in the department of Electronics andCommunication Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. He served asa Lecturer in National Institute of Science and Technology, Berhampur, India.During 2004-05, he has been to University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA as aVisiting Scientist. He has published more than 50 papers in journal andconferences, co-authored one book on Engineering Electromagnetics, and one bookchapter on Neural Network for Antennas inModern Antenna Handbook from Wiley. Besides this, he has presented hisresearch work as short courses/tutorials in many national and internationalconferences. His current research interests include array signal processing,application of soft-computing techniques in Electromagnetics, CAD for patchantennas, EMI and EMC. He wasawarded the IETE Sir J. C. Bose Award in 1998 andBOYSCAST Fellowship in 2004-05 from Department of Science and Technology,Government of India. Dr. Patnaik is a life member of Indian Society forTechnical Education (ISTE), Senior Member of IEEE and IEEE AP-S Region 10Distinguished Speaker.
