Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Maryland at College Park. He holds a joint appointment in the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS. Dr. Bhattacharyya is coauthor or coeditor of five books and the author or coauthor of more than 150 refereed technical articles. Dr. Bhattacharyya is director of the Maryland DSPCAD Research Group. He serves as associate editor for the EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems, International Journal of Embedded Systems, and Journal of Signal Processing Systems. Dr. Bhattacharyya has served as Chair of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Committee on Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems (2008-2009). Dr. Bhattacharyya has been a Nokia Distinguished Lecturer (Finland, 2006) and Fulbright Senior Specialist (Germany, 2005 and Austria, 2009). He has received the NSF Career Award (1998). He has received Best Paper Awards at the International Workshop on Systems, Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation (2008); and IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (2007).