Dr. Saurabh Gupta is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the National Institute of Technology Raipur (NIT Raipur), where he leads the Healthcare Innovations in Emerging Technologies (HIET) Lab. A distinguished academician and startup mentor, he holds a B.Tech in Biomedical Engineering, an M.S. from Manipal University, and a Ph.D. in Machine Learning and Inverse Problems from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. At NIT Raipur, Dr. Gupta serves as the Founding Head of the Center of Space and Interplanetary Exploration (COSINE) and the Professor In-Charge of the Innovation Cell, having previously anchored the institute’s Technology Incubation Center through substantial central grants. His core research intersects machine learning applications in medicine, biomedical device design, optical tomography, and affordable digital health kits designed to strengthen public health infrastructure in rural areas.