Dinesh Bhatia is a faculty member in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas. He directs research activities within the Embedded and Adaptive Computing group and is also a member of Center for Integrated Circuits and Systems at the University of Texas at Dallas. He holds Bachelors in Electrical Engineering and Masters and Ph.D. in Computer Science. He is a senior member of IEEE, Computer Society, Circuits and Systems Society, Eta Kappa Nu, and recently served on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on COMPUTERs. He was IEEE Circuits and Systems society's distinguished lecturer for 2007-2008. He is founder of Cirasys Corporation.

His research interests include all aspects of biomedical electronics and systems, medical devices, healthcare technologies, and Medical IT.

Today, he is working and collaborating on projects that deal with patient monitoring in ICU, hospital, home, and remote locations. He is architect of several patient monitoring solutions that gather patient's vital and contextual data and transmit them to central facilities for storage, analysis, and assisting in decisions for caregivers and healthcare providers. He works closely with many healthcare related establishments that include area hospitals (University of Texas Southwestern Medical School and its hospitals, Texas Health Resources’ group of hospitals), clinical researchers, health IT and medical IT providers, and device and technology developers.

In addition, he is working on medical device interoperability, disease management solutions, and has developed technologies that are migrating towards standard solutions. He is very interested and is constantly exploring disruptive technologies for next generation living and healthcare environments.

He has extensive experience in building large scale embedded and reconfigurable systems. Some of these activities include principal designer and investigator for RACE and NEBULA systems for Wright Laboratories of USAF, principal investigator for DARPA funded REACT program, Co-PI on AFRL funded SPARCs program and several more. He has collaborated on phase 1 and phase 2 SBIR programs to build product prototypes. He has published extensively in leading journals and conferences and continues to serve on program committees of several conferences.