Jaydip Desai was born in Junagadh, Gujarat, India. He received his B.Tech degree in Biomedical and Instrumentation Engineering from the U. V. Patel College of Engineering, Ganpat University, Kherva, Gujarat, India, in 2008, and M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in Biomedical Engineering from the Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, USA in 2010 and 2014, respectively. He has also received a graduate certification in Robotics and Control from the Mechanical Engineering department at the Stevens Institute of Technology in 2013. Dr. Desai joined the Department of Biomedical Engineering as an Assistant Professor at Indiana Institute of Technology , Fort Wayne, IN, USA, in 2013, where he started the human–machine interface laboratory to support undergraduate research. He joined the Department of Biomedical Engineering as an assistant professor at Wichita State University, Wichita, KS, USA in 2017, where he started a Neuro-Robotics lab to conduct research from cognitive neuroscience to rehabilitation robotics. His main areas of research interest are assistive technology, rehabilitation robotics, hybrid brain–machine interfaces, neural signal processing, and smart prosthetic and orthotic devices.