Gayathri Manikutty is a social innovator and a PhD scholar in Cognitive Sciences and Technology in AMMACHI Labs, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham. Till December 2021, she served as an assistant professor for the M.Tech Program in Robotics and Automation and as Robotics for Education research lead at AMMACHI labs, a Computer-Human Interaction research wing of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham. Prior to that, she worked for 11 years at Intel Corp. in Austin, Texas, USA as design automation and validation engineer. Her research interest areas are neurocognition for teaching and learning of skills, AI for social robotics, child robot interaction and computing education.