Sauvik DAS GUPTA obtained his B.Tech from SRMIST in India and an MS from Oklahoma State University, USA. Thereafter, he earned from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and KU Leuven, Belgium, a joint PhD in Human Movement Sciences and Biomedical Sciences (2023) with the prestigious Erasmus Mundus scholarship of the EU. He is now a postdoctoral researcher of the PSIBORG group/RIHSA unit/ITH department of AIST in Japan. He has previously published in numerous peer-reviewed journals and presented in top academic conferences in the field of biomechanics/kinesiology/engineering and has got multiple awards for his work. He also has the experience of securing various competitive grants from NWO, RVO and JSPS and also was the co-founder of two academic startups during his PhD. His current research interests are in human locomotion, biomechanics and energetics, fall prevention modeling, postural stability and balance control.  Keywords: Energetics, Elderly, Gait analysis, Falls, Wearables