Dr. Sridevi Sarma is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Vice Dean for Graduate Affairs at the Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. She earned her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT. After co-founding a data analytics company, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT.
Her research focuses on modeling and controlling neural systems using electrical stimulation, with applications to epilepsy, chronic pain, and psychiatric disorders. She leads NeuroTech Harbor, an NIH Blueprint MedTech Hub, and is a recipient of an NIH Research Investigator Award. Dr. Sarma’s honors include the PECASE award, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award, the AIMBE Fellowship, and the Whiting School’s Robert B. Pond Excellence in Teaching Award.