Rajendra Prasad is former Professor and Head, Department of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology (NIT), Patna. He graduated from Patna University and obtained his M.Tech and Ph.D degrees from IIT Delhi. He has to his credit a number of publications in national and international journals and conferences. He has teaching experience of 43 years at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels and has authored four books. His fields of specializations are instrumentation, estimation, and control.