Rajiv Soundararajan received the B. E. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, India in 2006. He received the M. S. and Ph. D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, USA in 2008 and 2012 respectively. Between 2012 and 2015, he was with Qualcomm Research India, Bangalore. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He received the 2016 IEEE Circuits and Systems for Video Technology Best Paper Award and 2017 IEEE Signal Processing Letters Best Paper Award. He also received a Technology and Engineering Emmy® Award from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in 2021 for the "Development of Perceptual Metrics for Video Encoding Optimization". His research interests are broadly in image and video signal processing, computer vision, machine learning and information theory.