Dr. Shikha Tripathi holds a PhD from BITS, Pilani, India and a Masters degree from BIT, Mesra, Ranchi, India. Her research interests include Speech/Image Processing, Architectures for transforms used in signal processing applications, Music signal processing and Control algorithms for robotic applications. Dr. Tripathi joined PES University, Bangalore in July 2017. Currently she is serving as Professor in Dept. of Electronics & Communication Engineering and research head of the Electronic City campus. Prior to this she was serving as Professor & Chairperson, Dept. of Electronics & Communication Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, School of Engineering, Bangalore campus, since July 2009. She has worked at BITS Pilani, Pilani campus in various capacities before joining Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham during 1998 to 2009.