Saurabh Prasad (Senior IEEE Member) is an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston, USA, where he directs the Machine Learning and Signal Processing Laboratory. His lab focuses on advancing state-of-the-art in machine learning and signal processing with applications to remote sensing and biomedicine. His work has been recognized by two student research awards during his Ph.D. study, a best student paper award at the 2008 IGARSS conference, top-10% papers at IEEE-ICIP conference, a NASA New Investigator (Early Career) award in 2014, and the junior faculty research excellence award at the University of Houston in 2017. He was the lead book editor on two Springer books on signal processing and machine learning for hyperspectral image analysis.