Uttama Lahiri has received her BTech from Jadavpur University, MTech from IIT Kharagpur and Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University, USA. Currently, she is Professor and Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering, and Coordinator of the Center for Biomedical Engineering at IIT Gandhinagar, India. She leads the Sarita Gelot Laboratory for Intelligent Rehabilitation and Affective Computing Systems at IIT Gandhinagar. Her research interests include Physiology-assisted diagnostics, Physiology-assisted
Rehabilitation / Intervention, Virtual Reality based Affective Computing and Rehabilitation, Eye Tracking, Physiology-based modeling techniques and Adaptive Intelligent techniques. She has received several awards, such as Tata Innovation Award, C.V. Raman Young Teachers’ Excellence Award, etc. With her research team, she has filed 9 patent applications with many being approved and one among these being an approved US patent. She has completed several National and International externally-
funded research projects and some of the funded projects are ongoing.