Vinay S. Palaparthy (Member, IEEE) received the M.Sc. (Hons.) degree from Nagpur University, Nagpur, India, in 2011, and the Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India, in 2018. He is currently working as an Assistant Professor with the Department of Information and Communication Technology, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DAIICT), Gandhinagar, India. Dr. Palaparthy was awarded the INSPIRE Fellowship for pursuing the Ph.D. degree at the Department of Science and Technology (DST). He was a co-recipient of the Millennium Alliance Award for the start-up name Proximal Soilsens Technologies Pvt. Ltd., where he is one of the co-founders.