Rabindranath Raut studied radiophysics and electrical engineering in Kolkata, India, and Canada and received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, in 1984. After working as an engineer in various organizations in India and Canada, Dr. Raut accepted a post as a faculty member in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Concordia University in 1991, where he still teaches. He has published numerous journal articles and contributions to conference proceedings, and is a member of the IEEE and IEE. Dr. Raut's teaching and research interests lie in the areas of electronics and analog VLSI, with specialization in analog voltage and current-mode filters, and radio frequency circuits and systems.
M.N.S. Swamy was awarded his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, in 1960. He is presently a Research Professor and the Director of the Center for Signal Processing and Communications in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, where he served as the Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering from 1970 to 1977, and Dean of Engineering and Computer Science from 1977 to 1993. Since 2001, he holds the Concordia Chair in Signal Processing. Dr. Swamy has also taught in the Electrical Engineering Department of the Technical University of Nova Scotia, Halifax, and the University of Calgary, as well as in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Saskatchewan. He is the author and co-author of many articles and several books, and a member of many societies, among them the IEEE and the IEE.