Jayanta Mukhopadhyay is a professor and head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the School of Information Technology at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur. He has held visiting positions at the University of California-Santa Barbara, the University of Southern California, and the National University of Singapore. He was also a Humboldt Research Fellow at the Technical University of Munich in 2002. Dr. Mukherjee is a senior member of the IEEE and a fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering. His research interests encompass image processing, pattern recognition, computer graphics, multimedia systems, and medical informatics.