Mahesh Banavar received a B.E. degree in telecommunications engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University, Karnataka, India, in 2005 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees, both in electrical engineering, from Arizona State University, Tempe, in 2007 and 2010, respectively. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY. His interests include node localization, detection and estimation algorithms, and performance analysis of distributed sensor algorithms for wireless sensor networks. Dr. Banavar is a recipient of the Teaching Excellence Award from the Graduate and Professional Student Association at Arizona State University and the Outstanding Teaching Award from the Eta Kappa Nu chapter at Clarkson University. He is also a member of MENSA and the Eta Kappa Nu honor society.