NIRANJAN A. PATIL received his B.E. degree in instrumentation and control engineering from Shivaji University, India in 2000, M.S. degree in electrical engineering from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2004 and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2009. He is currently a Project Application and Hardware engineering manager in Industrial Systems division of TMEIC Corporation which is a group company of Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial System Corp.