Vikram Krishnamurthy is a Professor and Canada Research Chair in Statistical Signal Processing at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. His research contributions focus on nonlinear filtering, stochastic approximation algorithms and POMDPs. Dr Krishnamurthy is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and served as a distinguished lecturer for the IEEE Signal Processing Society. In 2013, he received an honorary doctorate from KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.