Tejal Ashwin Desai (born June 3, 1972) is Sorensen Family Dean of Engineering at Brown University.

Prior to joining Brown, she was the Deborah Cowan Endowed Professor in the Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences at University of California, San Francisco,[1] Director of the Health Innovations via Engineering Initiative (HIVE), and head of the Therapeutic Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory.

[3] She is a researcher in the area of therapeutic micro and nanotechnology and has authored and edited at least one book on the subject [4] and another on biomaterials.

[6] Desai was born on June 3, 1972, in Huntington Beach, California, to Indian parents.

As president of American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering,[1] she led advocacy efforts for increased scientific funding and addressing workforce disparities in science/engineering.