Tamalika Chaira is a research scientist in the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, and the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi. Previously, she was a research associate at the National Research Council (CNR), Pisa, Italy. She holds a bachelor's degree from Bihar Institute of Technology, Sindri, Jharkhand, India; a master's degree from Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur, Howrah, India; and a Ph.D from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, West Bengal. She is an author of the book Fuzzy Image Processing and Applications with MATLAB, as well as numerous papers. She also received the prestigious National Award (Innovative Young Biotechnologist Award, 2010) from the Government of India.