Uma Shanker TiwaryUma Shanker Tiwary is currently professor at Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, India. He has completed his B. Tech. and Ph.D. in Electronics Engineering from Institute of Technology, B.H.U., Varanasi, India in 1983 and 1991 respetively. He has experience of teaching and research experience of more than 23 years in the area of Computer Science and Information Technology with special interest in Computer Vision, Image Processing, Speech and Language Processing, Human Computer Interaction and Information Extraction and Retrieval. He has co-authored a book on ‘Natural Language and Information Retrieval’ (Oxford University Press, 2007) and has edited several Proceedings of the International Conferences on ‘Intelligent Human Computer Interaction (Springer, 2009 and 2010)’ and was publication Chair of ‘Wireless Communication and Sensor Networks (IEEE Xplore, 2006, 2007 and 2008)’. His research work on the application of Wavelet Transform in Medical and Vision problems and Information Retrieval has been cited extensively. He was associated with the research work in the Mechatronics Dept. of Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, South Korea and with “Anglabharti’ project at Dept. of Computer Science and Engg. IIT Kanpur, India. He has delivered lectures, chaired many sessions at IEEE International Conferences and visited many labs in India and abroad, including U.S., South Korea, South Africa, China, Singapore, Thailand. He is the Fellow of IETE and Senior Member of IEEE. Read More Read Less