The author was born in 1947 in India. He received BE and ME degrees from MS University of Baroda, Vadodara in 1971 & 1974 and PhD from McMaster University, Canada in 1986. He worked as a scientist in National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore from 1975 to 1981 and 1986 to 2007. He has been fellow/senior member/member of many professional societies/bodies and has served on many administrative/technical/examination committees. He has reviewed papers for several International Journals and visited several countries on deputation. He has guided 14 Master/Doctoral level students. He has authored (jointly) three technical books (one published by IEE/IET, London, August 2004; and two by CRC Press, USA, August 2008; December 2009) in the area of his work and specialization and has also published 150 papers/reports. He has also authored a book ‘Poetry of Life’ (Trafford Publishing, USA, Sept. 2009) containing 110 poems. His research interests are modeling, parameter estimation, data fusion, flight mechanics modeling & analysis, fuzzy systems, genetic algorithms, neural networks and robotics. Presently he is Professor Emeritus in a private college in Bangalore. His reading interests are science, evolution and philosophy.