Y. V. Reddy received a degree in electrical engineering from the College of Engineering, Anantapur, India, in 1972. He obtained a postgraduate degree in control systems engineering from the PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore. India, in 1975, and the Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in 1986.He is now an Assistant Professor at the JNTU College of Engineering, Anantapur, India. His chief research interests are in microprocessor applications and signal processing.