Umesh Hivarkar's 24+ years of experience is characterized by multidisciplinary skills, having a unique combination of R&D profile, academics, and industry. He did his doctoral research in fiber optics & sensors, Instrumentation, Integrated optics, and Modeling & Simulation. His core expertise is in modeling and simulation, analytics, process & system automation and control, Maths and statistical analysis, application specific algorithm development, Machine vision, global optimization techniques, integrated optics, data acquisition/signal conditioning, radar signals and systems, speech/voice processing, data mining, PC-based instrumentation.