Rajesh M Hegde is a Professor and Head Dept. of Electrical Engineering at IIT Kanpur. He currently holds the Umang Gupta Chair Position and was also the P.K. Kelkar Fellow (2009-13) at IIT Kanpur. His areas of interest include speech and audio processing, spatial audio in virtual reality Systems, multimodal information fusion, wireless sensor networks, and IoT. He also has considerable interests in pervasive and mobile computing. He has also worked as researcher/lecturer  at the California Inst. of Telecommunications and Information Technology (University of California San Diego) and was associated with the DSP Lab.