Dr. Tessamma Thomas- Has 30 years of Teaching experience (UG,PG & Ph.D) at the Department of Electronics in Cochin University of Science and Technology. She is currently Reader at the same Department. Graduated from Kerala University, India (1975) in Physics, Post Graduation in Physics(1977), Completed her M.Tech(1979) from Cochin University of Science and Technology in Electronics & Communications and Ph.D (1996) from Cochin University of Science and Technology in “A Modified Block Adaptive Predictive Coder for Speech Processing”. Her field of Research & teaching include Speech / Music Processing, Image Processing, Wavelet Transform Applications, Bio-medical signal / Image processing, Artificial Neural Networks, Digital System Designs. She has more than forty National and International Journal and Conference Papers to her credit.