Shyam Diwakar is a Professor and Director of the Amrita Mind Brain Center and a Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering, School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (Amrita University). He is the Institute Integration Coordinator and Lab Development Coordinator of the Virtual Labs Project, a major initiative supported by the SAKSHAT Mission of the Ministry of Education, Government of India, and Principal Investigator of a few other projects. He was awarded the Young Faculty Research Fellowship under the Sir Visvesvaraya Ph.D. Scheme by the Department of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India, in April 2016. He is the current coordinator of an India-Italy Network of Excellence project, "MSBFIINE," involving six universities in India and Italy. He holds a Ph.D. in Computational Sciences from the University of Milan, Italy, and has worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Physiology, University of Pavia, Italy. He is a senior member of IEEE, a professional member of ACM, a life member of the Indian Academy of Neuroscience, and a faculty life member of the Computer Society of India. The current work at the center is focused on computational neuroscience, neurophysiology, bio-robotics and applied data sciences, and pedagogical techniques for enhancing medical and laboratory education through ICT. Info: https://www.amrita.edu/mindbrain