Saugat Bhattacharyya
Dr. Saugat Bhattacharyya pursued his graduation in Biomedical Engineering from West Bengal University of Technology, India in the year 2009 followed by post-graduation in Biomedical Engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India in the year 2011. He did a Ph.D. internship in the DEMAR project team, INRIA, Montpellier, France in 2014-2015 as part of the Erasmus Mundus-Svaagata Project Fellowship in 2014. Later, he was awarded his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India in the year 2015. Subsequently, he joined as a post-doctoral researcher with the BCI-LIFT project, CAMIN project team, INRIA, Montpellier, France at the end of 2015. Later, he worked in the Decision-Making Lab, BCI-NE Group, School of Computer Science & Electronics Engineering, University of Essex as a Senior Research Officer from July 2017 to April 2020. Currently he is a Lecturer in Computer Science in the School of Computing, Engineering & Intelligent Systems. His research interests are in the area of Cognitive Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and its application in Human-Machine Interaction and Neuro-Rehabilitation. He has experience in developing intelligent neuro-technologies to improve rehabilitation and decision making. His research is primarily focussed on developing brain-computer interfacing systems based on robust signal processing, quantitative and machine learning algorithms to draw inference into an users' state of mind through their neural and other physiological signals. He has more than 40 publications in SCI cited journals of high repute, book chapters and peer-reviewed conferences with citations more than 600.
Affiliations and expertise
Lecturer in Computer Science, School of Computing, Engineering and Intelligent Systems, UK