Pradeep Mitharam Patil, was born in Bhusawal, District Jalgaon, Maharashtra, India on December 13, 1966. He received B. E. (Electronics) degree in 1988 from Amravati University, Amravati, India and M. E. (Electronics) degree in 1992 from Marathwada University, Aurangabad, India. From 1988 to 2002 he worked as Lecturer and Assistant Professor in Electronics department at various engineering colleges in Pune University, India. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electronics and Computer Engineering in 2004 at Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University. He is member of various professional bodies like IE, ISTE, IEEE and Fellow of IETE. Presently he is working as Professor of Electronics Department at Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune, India. His research areas include pattern recognition, fuzzy neural networks and power.