Biography:

Dr. Manob Saikia is the Founder and Director of the Biomedical Sensors & Systems Lab (est. 2022) and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Memphis. Previously, he served as an Assistant Professor at the University of North Florida (2022–2024). A Senior Member of IEEE and Full Member of Sigma Xi, Dr. Saikia earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rhode Island (2019), an M.Tech. in Bio-Electronics Engineering (2013), and a B.E. in Electronics and Communication Engineering (2009).

Dr. Saikia has established a prolific research program, authoring 126 peer-reviewed publications (87 journals, 39 conferences), including 3 solo-authored articles in IEEE Transactions. He is recognized in the Stanford/Elsevier global database among the World's Top 2% of scientists (single-year citation impact, 2026). As a Principal Investigator, he has secured competitive external research awards, including active National Science Foundation (NSF) support, and holds an issued patent alongside multiple patent disclosures. Deeply committed to experiential student mentorship, he has supervised 2 postdoctoral fellows, serves as major advisor to 3 Ph.D. and 4 M.S. thesis students, and has mentored more than 35 graduate research interns and over 40 undergraduate researchers.

Prior to his faculty career, Dr. Saikia was a Research Associate at the Center for Applied Brain and Cognitive Sciences at Tufts University (2019–2022). From 2016 to 2019, he served as a primary researcher on a $6M NSF EPSCoR initiative at the University of Rhode Island, pioneering wearable neuroimaging technologies. Earlier in his career (2012–2015), he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), funded by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India.