Director, BIONICs Lab
Assistant Professor, Bioengineering
BSE Biomedical Engineering
Case Western Reserve University
PhD. Medical Engineering and Medical Physics
Harvard-MIT Health Sciences & Technology
Shriya Srinivasan is an assistant professor at the John A. Paulson Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. She is the founder and director of the Biohybrid Organs and Neuroprosthetics (BIONIC) Lab where engineers, neuroscientists, roboticists, surgeons, and rehabilitation experts solve challenges in neural control and rehabilitation.
Shriya received her BS in biomedical engineering from Case Western Reserve University and her doctoral degree in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics through the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology program.
During her doctoral tenure in the Biomechatronics Lab at the MIT Media Lab, she developed novel neural interfaces and surgical paradigms for amputation that have been translated to humans, improving neural control and enabling patients to feel the movement of robotic prostheses. She also developed optogenetic stimulation strategies that accelerate neural regeneration and enable closed-loop peripheral limb control. During her postdoctoral tenure in the Langer Lab at MIT, Shriya designed ingestible and implantable devices for gastrointestinal neuromodulation in collaboration with Dr. Giovanni Traverso. These devices manipulate gastrointestinal receptors to affect satiety, drug absorption and motility.
Shriya has been awarded the Delsys Prize, the Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for her innovative work, and recognized by Forbes and the MIT Technology Review as one of 30 innovators under 30.
As a former director of MIT Hacking Medicine, Shriya works passionately on healthcare innovation. She founded and co-directs the Project Prana Foundation, a nonprofit devoted to affordable medical technology innovation. During the COVID pandemic, her team designed and commercialized a ventilator multiplexing device in the Indian market. Shriya is a professional dancer and produces socially relevant pieces with the Anubhava Dance Company.