K V S Hari is a Professor in the Department of ECE, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He holds a PhD (Systems Science) from U C San Diego, an MTech (Radar and Communication Engineering) from IIT Delhi and a B.E (ECE) from Osmania University College of Engineering, He has been a visiting faculty at Stanford University and Affiliate Professor at KTH- Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. His research interests are in Signal Processing and Deep Learning with applications to 5G wireless communications, Dual Function Radar and Communication systems, Autonomous Navigation, Neuroscience, and affordable MRI systems.

He is a co-author of the IEEE 802.16 standard on wireless channel models and has conducted drone-ground wireless channel modelling experiments. He is part of the UK-India Future Networks Initiative (UKI-FNI) and currently leads the British Telecom India Research Centre (BTIRC), IISc. He served as the Chair, Standardization Committee, Telecom Standards Development Society, India.

He was an Editor of EURASIP’s Signal Processing journal and is currently the Editor-in-Chief (Electrical Sciences) of Sadhana, the journal of the Indian Academy of Sciences published by Springer. He is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, Indian National Science Academy, and IEEE. He was on the Board of Governors, the IEEE Signal Processing Society as VP-Membership(2020-22).