Prof. Niladri Puhan received his PhD from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore (2007) and M.E in Signal Processing from Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore in 2002. He was involved in postdoctoral research from 2007 to 2009 in Nanyang Technological University. He joined as an Assistant Professor at International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Bangalore in January 2010.  His current research is focussed on designing novel and practical methods in Digital watermarking, Biometrics,  Image Processing and Computer Vision. He is a member of IEEE.