Shilpa Malik is the founder and CTO of Bioscan Research, which has received over 20 accolades, most recently the American Society of Mechanical Engineers prize in healthcare for its breakthrough brain haemorrhage detector, Cerebo. She is a computer science engineer with an entrepreneurship management degree from India and postgraduate training from Technion Israel, Judge Business School in the United Kingdom, and Carleton University in Canada. She is a former Defence Research and Development scientist who worked on the design and development of military sensor systems.