Dr. K.A. Narayanankutty was born on 05.11.1949 in Bangalore, India. He obtained his bachelor of Engineering from Jabalpur University in 1970. He obtained his Master of Technology and PhD from IISC Bangalore in 1974 and 1980 respectively. He was a project engineer at Jyothi Ltd Vadodara, Chief engineer at Microwave Products India ltd. He was a consultant for major industries in Kerala for about 15 years. He is currently working as a professor in Amrita School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore. His areas of interests include signal processing