Amlan Kundu received the B.Tech. degree in electronics from Calcutta University in 1979, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1982 and 1985, respectively.After graduation, he joined the faculty of the State University of New York at Buffalo. From 1991 to 1992, he was affiliated with the Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition (CEDAR), SUNY Buffalo. Since June 1992, he has been with NCCOSC, San Diego, CA. His research interests include signal/image processing, optimal (Kalman type) filtering in non-Gaussian environments, pattern recognition, and communications. He is particularly interested in pioneering applications of hidden Markov modeling to nonspeech problems such as handwriting recognition, computer vision, and SONAR signal identification, He has written more than 40 refereed scientific papers in his various fields of research interest.