Amritha Nayak received her Bachelor of Biomedical Engineering from Manipal Institutes of Technology, India, followed by an M.E. in Biomedical Engineering, from Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. Her primary research experience has been in medical imaging, with two training opportunities with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Biomedical Engineering Summer Internship Program, with the NIH Clinical Center’s Department of Rehabilitation Medicine and the Department of Radiology. Upon completion of her master’s degree program, Ms. Nayak was granted an NIH Technical Intramural Research Training Award and first began working with diffusion MRI image processing and analysis at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Thereafter, she was an employee of The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine (HJF) and worked as a guest researcher with the Laboratory on Quantitative Medical Imaging (QMI) at the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), NIH. She is now working as a Data Scientist with QMI, NIBIB, NIH.. She has contributed and currently working in projects ranging in topics from normative human development, aging, mild traumatic brain injury, stroke, Down syndrome, multiple sclerosis, and Parkinson's disease. Her expertise involves project management, processing, analysis of diffusion data, and training of new team members in the same skills. She is also a contributor and expert user of TORTOISE diffusion processing software.