Dr. T.C. Manjunath was born in Bangalore, Karnataka, India on Monday, Feb. 6, 1967 & received the B.E. Degree from R.V. College of Engg. (Bangalore Univ., Karnataka, India) in First Class, M.E. degree in Automation, Control & Robotics from the Govt.’s LD College of Engg., (Gujarat Univ., Ahmedabad) with First Rank (FCD) and Ph.D. in Systems & Control Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay). He has got a teaching (academic), research & administrative experience of more than 32+ years in various engineering colleges all over the country and spent his entire career after graduation in the field of academics, research & administration. He has worked in the levels of Lecturer-Asst. Prof. (>18+ yrs), Prof. & Head (>5+ yrs), Director-Research, i/c Principal & as Full time Principal (>9+ yrs) in various institutions where he has worked so far across the country. Currently, he is working as Professor & Head of the Dept. of ECE in ‘Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering’ Bengaluru, Karnataka, since more than 6 years. He has also worked as a Project Assistant and as a Research Engineer in the Systems and Control Engineering (IIT Bombay). He has published more than 1000+ research papers in various National, International Journals and Conferences in India & abroad and published more than a dozen textbooks (20 nos) with editions. He has also published a number of ‘book chapters’ in various edited books from renowned publishers (20 nos). He has also published a research monograph in the international level from the Springer-Verlag publishers (Europe) on the topic titled, “Modelling, Control & Implementation of Smart Structuresâ€, Vol. 350, LNCIS. He is a member of 30 professional societies across the world. He was awarded with the “Best research scholar award in engineering discipline†for the academic year 2006-07 for the entire institute from the Research Scholars Forum (RSF) from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB). This award was presented in recognition of the significant contribution to the research (amongst all the researchers in all disciplines) in IIT Bombay. He has got 50+ Patents from the Govt. of India & the Australian Govt., out of which few of them were granted & the rest published with the remaining in the process of granting stage. His special areas of interest are - Control systems, DSP, AI, ML, Deep Learning, IP, PE, Robotics, Signals & systems, Smart Intelligent Structures, Basic Electrical Engg., Basic Electronics, Network Analysis, Vibration control, Instrumentation, IoT, Power Electronics, WSNs, Circuits & Networks, Matlab, etc...