Sudip Misra is an Associate Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He has authored over two hundred scholarly research papers and published eight books. He has received several prestigious awards such as the IEEE ComSoc Asia Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award, Canadian Government's prestigious NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship, the Humboldt Research Fellowship in Germany, the NASI Young Scientist Award, and the IEI Young Engineers Award. Dr Misra serves in the editorial board of several reputed journals. He was also invited to deliver keynote/invited lectures in over thirty international conferences in USA, Canada, Europe, Asia and Africa.