Dr. Gowri Srinivasa is a Professor in the Department of Information Science and Engineering at PESIT South Campus and heads the PES Center for Pattern Recognition. She graduated with a BE in Computer Science and Engineering from PESIT in 2004 and a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Carnegie mellon University in . Gowri’s research interests are in the areas of pattern recognition, image processing, data mining and the application of multiresolution techniques. She served as an Associate Member of the Technical Committee of the IEEE Biomedical Imaging and Signal Processing Society (BISP) of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) from January 2009 December 2013 and has been elected to serve as a Member of the Technical Committee of the IEEE BISP for the term January 2014 December 2016.