Laxmidhar Behera, Ph.D. is the Poonam and Prabhu Goel Chair Professor at IIT Kanpur, India. He is a teacher, researcher, author and industrial collaborator for over 25 years, in the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Machine Learning. He has more than 280 publications, Journals and Conference Proceedings, including many peer-reviewed articles receiving best paper awards. His co-authored book, “Intelligent Systems and Control”, an Oxford University Press publication, is now in its’ 5th reprint and is a prescribed graduate level text book in many Universities across the world. He has authored several books pioneering the fields of artificial intelligence, robotics and Machine Learning. He has also been associate editor for two International journals published by Taylor & Francis and Hindwai. His research work lies in the convergence of machine learning, control theory, robotic vision and heterogeneous robotic platforms contributing innovative advancements in the theoretical and experimental paradigms for this field. His other research interests include intelligent control, semantic signal/music processing, neural networks, Brain Computer Interface (BCI), control of cyber-physical systems, and cognitive modeling. He is the recipient of many large exclusive grants to support his groundbreaking research. Lending his genius to many academic institutions.