M Cengiz Taplamacioglu Editor

Prof. Vanita Jain is Head of the Information Technology Department at Bharati Vidyapeeth’s College of Engineering, New Delhi. She completed her B.E. and M.E. from Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh, and Kurukshetra University, respectively. She received her Ph.D. from the VJTI , Mumbai University.  Her areas of interest include digital communication, control systems, optimization and system engineering. Dr. Gopal Chaudhary is an Assistant Professor at Bharati Vidyapeeth’s College of Engineering, New Delhi.  He received his B.Tech. from UPTU, his M.Tech. from the DTU, and his Ph.D. from the NSIT, University of Delhi. His areas of specialization are pattern recognition, computer vision and biometrics.Dr. M. Cengiz Taplamacioglu is a Professor at the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, Gazi University.  He received his Ph.D. in Electrical, Electronics and Systems Engineering from the University of Wales College of Cardiff. Prof. M.S. Agarwal received his B. E. (Hons.) degree in Electrical Engineering from the Government Engineering College, Jabalpur, in 1963, his M.Tech. degree in Power Systems from the IIT Bombay in 1967, and his Ph.D. in Vacuum Arcs from the University of Liverpool in 1977. After completing his Ph.D., he founded a research program on Vacuum and HVDC Circuit Breakers and established new research laboratories at the IIT Bombay. He has supervised several M. Tech. and Ph.D. degree projects in these fields and published a number of research papers in prominent national and international journals.