A warm welcome to Dr Rahul Gupta, who has joined the University of Bristol’s Mumbai Enterprise Campus as Assistant Professor in Financial Technology. Rahul received his PhD in Computational Neuroscience from Jawaharlal Nehru University in 2019. He subsequently joined the University of Bristol as a postdoctoral researcher, developing data-constrained mathematical models of neural learning and computational models of neural networks. After returning to India, Rahul was an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES), and later joined Jawaharlal Nehru University as Scientist-I in the School of Computational and Integrative Sciences. His research interests span computational modelling, data analysis, and machine learning.