Raghavendra G. Kulkarni received BE in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Karnatak University, MTech from IIT Madras, and Ph.D. from IIT Kharagpur. He joined Hybrid Microcircuits (HMC) division of Bharat Electronics Ltd., (BEL) Bengaluru, in 1982 as Deputy Engineer, and served there for thirty-two years in various positions. At BEL, Dr. Kulkarni won two R & D Excellence Awards at BEL---in 1989 for the development of Surface-Acoustic-Wave (SAW) filters, and in 2011 for the development of signal-conditioners for missiles. In 2013, he received Raksha-Mantri Award for the development of missile-electronics modules. Dr. Kulkarni has obtained two patents on SAW filter design and has authored more than sixty papers in the field of SAW filters, signal processing, and mathematics. He is the inventor of several window functions like---polynomial windows, hyperbolic cosine windows, and sine windows for signal processing applications. In 2014, Dr. Kulkarni joined PES University, Bengaluru, as a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering. Dr. Kulkarni has given invited talks on SAW Filter Design at ISRO Bengaluru, IIT Delhi, SSPL Delhi, LRDE Bengaluru, VSSC Trivandrum, and IISc Bengaluru. He has conducted workshops on SAW filter design at ISAC (ISRO) and CRL (Bharat Electronics) Bengaluru. Dr. Kulkarni is a senior member of IEEE, a life member of Ramanujan Mathematical Society, Indian Mathematical Society, Mathematics Teachers Association (India), and IMAPS-India.