Dr. Vikram Krishnamurthy is currently a professor at the ECE department at Cornell University and Cornell Tech. He was also a professor and Canada Research Chair at University of British Columbia since 2002. His research interests are in statistical signal processing and stochastic control. Dr. Krishnamurthy is a Fellow of IEEE. He has served as distinguished lecturer for the IEEE signal processing society. In 2013 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), Sweden.