M. C. Hanumantharaju received his B. E, M. Tech, and Ph. D degrees in VLSI Signal and Image Processing from Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum, Karnataka, India in 2001, 2004 and 2014, respectively. He is currently a Professor and Head of the Department of ECE at BMS Institute of Technology and Management, Bengaluru, India. He has published two books and 50 technical articles in refereed journals and proceedings such as IEEE, Intelligent Systems, Particle Swarm Optimization, etc. His research interests include Design of Hardware Architectures for Signal and Image Processing Algorithms, RTL Verilog Coding, FPGA/ASIC Design.