Nitin Chandrachoodan received his BTech (electronics and communication engineering) from IIT Madras in 1996, and PhD from the University of Maryland at College Park in 2002, in the area of high-level synthesis techniques for mapping DSP algorithms to architectures. He has been with the department of electrical engineering at IIT Madras since 2004, where he is currently an professor.

His research interests include digital systems design and design automation tools and techniques, as well as design of embedded systems with a special focus on assistive technologies. He has taught graduate courses on digital integrated circuit design and on mapping algorithms to architectures, and a UG course on data structures and algorithms, as well as a laboratory course on digital design using FPGAs. He is an associate editor of the Springer Journal of Signal Processing Systems.

Other courses by the same instructor: CS2101 - Embedded C Programming , EE2103 - Digital System Design and EE3102 - Control Engineering

Basavaraj Talawar is an Associate Professor at the CSE department at NITK, Surathkal. His research interests are in the broad area of Computer Architecture. He teaches the first year Programming in Python course for students of all branches at NITK, Surathkal.