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Dr Tapan Kumar Gandhi is working as Professor in the Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Cadence Chair Professor of AI and Automation,  Joint Faculty in School of AI, IIT Delhi and adjunct faculty in the school of AI and data science, IIT Jodhpur. He is also research affiliate to MIT, USA. He received his Ph.D. fellowship from (MIT, USA) and obtained his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from IIT Delhi.

Following his Ph.D., he has spent couple of years as postdoctoral research associate at MIT, USA. Dr Gandhi was also awarded an INSPIRE Faculty in the engineering & technology category of the Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of India. During this 5 years tenure, he is awarded as the excellent INSPIRE Faculty by DST, Govt. of India. His research expertise spans from Computational Neuroscience, Brain imaging, Assistive Technology, Bio-medical Instrumentation, Machine Learning, Cognitive Computing to Artificial intelligence.

He has published papers in top ranking journals like NaturePNAS, Current Biology, PloS Biology, IEEE Transactions. He has more than 200 publications in International journals and conference proceedings. He is PI & Co-PI of multi Crore funded projects from Industry as well as Govt. of India organizations.

He has received many awards in India (including one from Ex-President of India, Dr Kalam) and abroad for his academic excellence and ground breaking research. His research work is not only published in top-notch journals but also appeared in many popular presses including TIME magazine, the Boston Globe, the New York Times, MIT News, Harvard News, Wall street Journal and also in the SCIENCE Magazine. Dr Gandhi’s work was selected as cover page in Science Magazine in 2015. He has delivered many invited talks in National and International Universities like MGH, Harvard University, Yale University, Copenhagen University, University of Groningen. He is one of the international member in European Union joint projects on Vision Sciences and collaborator in many international projects.

He has four patents and three technologies transfer to Ministry of Social Justice, Govt. of India. He is serving as expert member (Task Force) in  various research committees in Govt. of India, UNESCO as well as reviewers in many journals like IEEE, Elsevier, and Springer-Nature etc. He has also received Platinum Jubilee YOUNG SCIENTIST award 2015 by National Academy of Science in INDIA and GYTI 2019 Award, Faculty Fellow (iHUB DivyaSampark, Technology Innovation Hub, IIT Roorkee) and Abdul Kalam Technology Innovation National Fellowship. He is elected Fellow of National Academy of Engineering (FNAE).  Presently he is the Chairperson of Project Prakash charitable Trust (https://www.prakashtrust.org/), that helps in Restoration of Vision  and providing education to visually impaired in India. Dr Gandhi is mentoring three start-ups; (1) CLUIX (https://www.cluix.in/), (2) JAROBLE (https://www.jaroble.com), (3) WinV (https://winv.in/).