Rao, K.: - K. R. Rao received the Ph. D. degree in electrical engineering from The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque in 1966. He is now working as a professor of electrical engineering in the University of Texas at Arlington, (UTA) Texas. He has published (coauthored) 17 books, some of which have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish and Russian. Also, as e-books and paper back (Asian) editions. He has supervised 112 Masters and 31 doctoral students. He has published extensively and conducted tutorials/workshops worldwide. He has been a visiting professor in National university of Singapore and electronics and telecommunications research institute (ETRI), Taejon, Korea. He has been a keynote speaker in many national and international conferences. He has been a consultant to academia, industry and research institutes. He has been an external examiner for several M.S. and Ph. D. students worldwide. He has been a reviewer of research proposals from Brazil, China, India, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and US. He was invited to review applications for recruitment and/or promotion of faculty in various Universities (US and abroad). He is an IEEE Fellow. He has been a member of the academy of distinguished scholars, UTA.

Domínguez, Humberto: - Humberto Ochoa Domínguez received the Ph. D. degree in electrical engineering from The University of Texas, Arlington in 2004. He is currently working as a professor of computer and electrical engineering in the University of Ciudad Juárez, (UACJ) México. Humberto has published extensively and is a reviewer for referred journals and has published (coauthored) 3 books. Also, he is an IEEE member and a consultant for the academy and the industry in the Machine Learning field. He has supervised several Masters and doctoral students and served as external examiner for several M.S. and Ph. D. students. He is also a reviewer of research proposals from the industry.

Subbarayappa, Shreyanka: - Dr. Shreyanka Subbarayappa received her B.E. degree in Telecommunication Engineering from Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India in 2009. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from The University of Texas at Arlington, Texas, U.S.A. in 2012 and 2020. She is currently serving as an assistant professor at Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences, Bangalore India in electronics and communication department since January 2018. Prior to this, she has had 5 years of research and industry experience, working for Intel Corporation in US, UK and India as a Team Lead in the graphics driver development for Windows, Linux and Android operating systems. She has delivered many lectures on "Data Compression" nationally and internationally. She has also worked as a visiting faculty at University of Texas at Arlington for a period of one year from 2019 to 2020 taking masters level courses. She was hired as a 'Subject Expert' by Google LLC, U.S.A. for advising the attorney on patent litigation cases on video codecs algorithms. She has served as a reviewer for many masters and Ph.D. thesis. Her passion and research interests are in the field of Multimedia Processing, Video Pre/Post Processing, Video Codecs, Image Pre/Post Processing, Image Codecs and Audio Codecs.