Prof. P. Mahalakshmi is an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering at VIT University, Vellore. She did her Bachelors in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Bharathiar University, M.Tech., in Biomedical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai. Her areas of research include: Signal and Image processing, Instrumentation, Speech perception. (Based on document published on 24 November 2016).