Dr. Debajit Saha is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Saha joined MSU in 2019 Fall after pursuing his doctoral and postdoctoral training at Washington University in St. Louis. Previously, Dr. Saha received his master’s degree from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and bachelor’s degree in Physics from Jadavpur University, India.

Dr. Saha’s work encompasses systems neuroscience and neural engineering. His previous works on identifying neural rules of learning and decision making in olfactory sensory system have been published in several high-impact journals (Saha et al. Nature Neuroscience 2013, Nature Communications 2015, 2017). Dr. Saha is also working on developing Insect Brain-Based chemical sensors for medical, environmental and public safety applications.

The laboratory of ‘Bioengineering of Olfactory Sensory Systems’ (BOSS) led by Dr. Saha is working on developing neural engineering and brain-computer interface (BCI) techniques to address how population neuron responses shape associative learning, social behavior, and decision-making in real time. Dr. Saha is applying the brain-behavior connectivity knowledge towards biosensing in natural environments.