Madasu Hanmandlu (M’02) received the B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from Osmania University, Hyderabad, India, in 1973, the M.Tech. degree in power systemsf rom R.E.C. Warangal, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU), India, in 1976, and the Ph.D. degree in control systems from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India, in 1981. From 1980 to 1982, he was a Senior Scientific Officer in Applied Systems Research Program (ASRP) of the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi. He joined the EE department as a lecturer in 1982 and became Assistant Professor in 1990, an Associate Professor in 1995 and finally a Professor in 1997. He was with Machine Vision Group, City University, London, from April –November, 1988, and Robotics Research Group, Oxford University, Oxford from March-June, 1993, as part of the Indo-UK research collaboration. He was a Visiting Professor with the Faculty of Engineering (FOE), Multimedia University, Malaysia from March 2001 to March 2003. He worked in the areas of Power Systems, Control, Robotics and Computer Vision, before shifting to fuzzy theory. His current research interests mainly include Fuzzy Modeling for Dynamic Systems and applications of Fuzzy logic to Image Processing, Document Processing, Medical Imaging, Multimodal Biometrics, Surveillance and Intelligent Control. He has authored a book on Computer Graphics in 2005 under PBP publications and also has well over 185 publications in both conferences and journals to his credit. He has guided 15 Ph.Ds and 90 M.Tech students. He has handled several sponsored projects. He is presently an Associate Editor of both Pattern Recognition Journal and IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems and a reviewer to other journals such as Pattern Recognition Letters, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing and Systems, Man and Cybernetics. He is a Senior member of IEEE and is listed in Reference Asia; Asia’s who’s who of Men and Women of achievement; 5000 Personalities of the World (1998), American Biographical Instituteoo