Dr. Akila Surendran completed her B.Tech (Industrial Biotechnology) at A.C. College of Technology, Anna University, Chennai. She was then awarded the Singapore-MIT Alliance scholarship to pursue Ph.D. (Computational and Systems Biology) at the National University of Singapore. Upon completion of her Ph.D., she joined NISH in October, 2015 as a Senior Engineer in the Centre for Assistive Technology and Innovation (CATI). She finds the NISH campus to be a place brimming with energy and enthusiasm and is glad to be a part of it.