Ravi P. Ramachandran received his B.Eng. degree (with great distinction) from Concordia University in 1984, his M.Eng. degree from McGill University in 1986 and his Ph.D. degree from McGill University in 1990. From October 1990 to December 1992, he worked at the Speech Research Department at AT&T Bell Laboratories. From January 1993 to August 1997, he was a Research Assistant Professor at Rutgers University. He was also a Senior Speech Scientist at T-Netix from July 1996 to August 1997. Since September 1997, he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rowan University, where he has been a Professor since September 2006. He has served as a consultant to T-Netix, Avenir Inc., Motorola, and FocalCool. His research interests are in digital signal processing, speech processing, biometrics, pattern recognition, machine learning and filter design.