Professor Someshwar S. Bhattacharya is the head and vice dean of the Technology and Engineering Department of the M.S. University of Baroda in India. In 2000 he was awarded for his AICTE R&D project. His thesis was short-listed in first ten for best thesis for Indian Academy of Engineering, New- Delhi in 2008. In 2012 his article on the development of prototype bandage lapper for constant tension bandaging published in Journal of Tissue Viability was recognized as one of the best papers. He is advisory board member of the Textile journal.