Rate My Professor Sylvia Bhattacharya

Sylvia Bhattacharya is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering Technology within the Engineering faculty at Kennesaw State University, a position she has held since joining the institution in 2019. She also serves as Scientific Director of the Cyber Physical Realms Research Center in the Office of Research and directs the Neuro-Interaction Innovation Laboratory as well as the INNOVATION Research Lab. Her academic journey includes earning a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Florida State University between 2016 and 2019, a Master of Science from Georgia Southern University from 2014 to 2016, and a Bachelor of Technology from West Bengal University of Technology from 2009 to 2013. Earlier in her career, she worked as a Visiting Research Faculty at Google in Mountain View, California.

Dr. Bhattacharya's research in electrical engineering centers on improving artificial intelligence models by analyzing human intuitive decision-making in high-stakes environments, including studies of driver and passenger behaviors in combat zones to advance AI applications in battlefield decision-making. She has obtained significant funding, exceeding $1 million from the U.S. Army for her projects and Google grants via the "Computing to Change the World" program to support mentoring of underrepresented students. Notable publications encompass "Towards practical BCI-driven wheelchairs: A systematic review study" with Mohammad Y. M. Naser in IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering (2023), "EEG-based prediction of driving events from passenger cognitive state using Morlet Wavelet and Evoked Responses" in Transportation Engineering (2022), "Empowering human-AI teams via intentional behavioral synchrony" in Frontiers in Neuroergonomics (2023), "A multiuser EEG based imaginary motion classification using neural networks" in SoutheastCon 2016 (2016), and "Comparative study of remote surgery techniques" in IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (2015). Professionally, she acts as Executive Editor of the Journal of Harmonized Research in Applied Sciences, serves as a reviewer for the International Association of Journals and Conferences, is a member of IEEE Women in Engineering, and advises the KSU Society of Women Engineers. She has delivered public presentations such as a PechaKucha on human-AI integration.