Shyamanta M Hazarika is a Abdul Kalam Technology Innovation National Fellow. He is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mehta Family School of Data Science & Artificial Intelligence, IIT Guwahati. He leads the Biomimetic Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Lab. His primary research interest is in Robotic Neurorehabilitation. This translates into interest in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Rehabilitation Robotics.

Prior to joining IIT Guwahati he was Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Tezpur University. He had been a Vertretungsprofessur (substitute `Full' Professor) of Cognitive Systems & NeuroInformatics, University of Bremen, Germany. He holds B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Assam Engineering College, Guwahati, India; M.Tech. in Robotics from IIT Kanpur, India. He completed his PhD in Artificial Intelligence from School of Computing, University of Leeds, England.