Narendra Dixit is a professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and an associate faculty member in the Department of Bioengineering at IISc. He got his BTech from IIT Bombay and MS and PhD from UIUC, all in chemical engineering. He did postdoctoral studies at the Los Alamos National Lab before joining IISc. His interests are in computational biology, focusing on infectious diseases and microbiomes. He has been a senior fellow of the DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance, is a fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, and serves on the editorial board of PLoS Computational Biology.