Hariharan Muthusamy received a Ph.D. in Mechatronic Engineering (2010) from the University of Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), Malaysia, a Master of Engineering in Applied Electronics (2006) from the Government College of Technology, India, and a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (2002) from Government College of Technology (Affiliated to Bharathiar University), India. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronics Engineering, National Institute of Technology Uttarakhand, India. He has published over 150 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings. His major research interests include speech signal processing, biomedical signal and image processing, machine learning, deep learning, and optimization algorithms. He has supervised 9 Ph.D. and 4 Masters (research) students in the field of his expertise.