S.R. Subramanya received his doctoral degree in computer science from the George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA. Dr. Subramanya has been the recipient of the Richard Merwin memorial award at the George Washington University and the Grant in Aid of Research award from Sigma Xi. He is currently Senior Research Scientist at LG Electronics Mobile Research and worked previously at ASEA AB in Sweden and at Nokia in Finland. Dr. Subramanya was also a faculty member at the University of Missouri-Rolla, USA, where he taught courses and conducted research in multimedia systems. He is the author or coauthor of more than 60 technical papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings. He has served as a reviewer, program committee member, and session chair of several international conferences and as a reviewer for several journals and research grant proposals. He is a senior member of the IEEE.