Amiya R. Mohanty has been a faculty member at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India, since 1996, and is currently a professor of mechanical engineering. He has a B.ScEngg (Hons) in mechanical engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela. He holds a master’s degree in machine design specialization from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and a PhD in the area of noise control from the University of Kentucky in the United States. Prof. Mohanty is a fellow of the Acoustical Society of India. He has consulted more than 50 companies, and published more than 100 journal articles.