Samarendra Dandapat received the B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from Motilal Nehru Regional Engineering College, Allahabad, India, in 1986, the M.Tech degree in biomedical engineering from the Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, in 1991, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, India, in 1997. He was a Lecturer in electrical engineering at Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology, Talcher, Orissa, India, from 1986 to 1989. He worked as a Reader in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, IET, Rohilkhand University, Bareilly, India, from 1996 to 1997. From May 2003 to July 2004, he worked as a Research Fellow in the Biomedical Engineering Research Center, NTU, Singapore. He joined as an Assistant Professor in the Department Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India, in 1997. He has worked as Dean, IIT Patna for setting up a new institute, Indian Institute of Technology Patna. Currently, he is a Professor in the same department and holds post of Dean Administration of the institute. His current research interests are digital signal processing, speech processing, biomedical signal processing, and medical image processing. Dr. Dandapat is a Life Member of the Institution of Engineers, India, and a Life Member of the Biomedical Society of India.