Our Team
Faculty
Uttama Lahiri
Professor
Electrical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
Dr. Uttama Lahiri is a faculty at Electrical Engineering with research interests in Virtual Reality based Human Computer Interaction used in affective computing, Eye Tracking and Physiology based modeling techniques, Human Robot Interaction used in cognitive studies, Adaptive Intelligent techniques in cognitive research, Robot assisted surgical techniques. She has PhD from Vanderbilt University, USA and MTech from IIT Kharagpur. She loves to work on application oriented projects and solutions for individuals with special needs and rehabilitation platforms for the elderly. She has established Sarita G Gelot Laboratory for Intelligent Rehabilitation and Affective Computing Systemsat IIT Gandhinagar. Her Lab has graduated many PhD students who are in different roles across the globe. She enjoys teaching both fundamental and advanced technical concepts of engineering to the undergraduate and the graduate students.
Present Doctoral Students

Ankita Raghuvanshi
Electrical Engineering
Research Areas: Gait Rehabilitation, Biomedical Signal Processing, Neurological Rehabilitation, Signal Analysis, Parkinson Disease.

Paromita Mitra
Electrical Engineering
Research Areas: Brain Cognition, Eye Tracking, Artificial Assistive Technology.

Somen Sarkar
Electrical Engineering
Research Areas: Static and Dynamic Balance, Diagnostics and Rehabilitation System, Virtual Reality, Human Machine Interface, Biomedical Signal Processing.

Nishchay Singh
Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Research Areas: Cognitive Skill Training, Artificial Intelligence, UX Research, Extended Reality, Gamification.

Debayan Bhattacharya
Electrical Engineering
Research Areas: Biomedical Signal Processing, Instrumentation, Artificial Intelligence.
Present Masters Students

Kiran Chavhan
Electrical Engineering
Research Interests: Biomedical Signal Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Real-Time Sensor Data Analysis.
(Expected Year of Graduation: 2026)

Sambhav Prabhu Dessai
Electrical Engineering
Research Interests: Natural Language Processing, Audio Signal Processing, Machine Learning.
(Expected Year of Graduation: 2026)

Satvik Anand
Electrical Engineering
Research Interests: Signal Processing, Cognitive Load, Stress.
(Expected Year of Graduation: 2026)