Vijay Kumar Kodavalla is presently working as Lead Architect in Wipro Technologies, Bangalore, India. He has more than 16 years of VLSI industry experience, worked on complex ASIC, SoC, FPGA and System designs in Audio/Video domain. He has three US Patents pending and presented several papers in international conferences. He has obtained B.Tech (Electronics & Comm), M.Tech (Electronics & Comm) and MS (Micro Electronics) degrees in 1992, 1995 and 2002 years respectively. He is currently pursuing PhD from JNTU College of Engineering, Hyderabad. His research interests include Image/Video compression, Image/Video post processing and Chip Architectures.