Nirveek Bhattacharjee joined AID in February 2002, as part of a group of graduate students at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, who started the JHU (Baltimore) chapter of AID. Since then he has been involved with the JHU chapter in various capacities, including being the chapter coordinator. Nirveek has also been involved with a variety of AID-wide activities including the One for India campaign (2002-04), Tsunami rehabilitation efforts coordination (2005), Bhopal campaign (2005-present), JK Earthquake relief coordination (2005), RTI campaign (2006) and has been part of the AID Media team and Publications team (2005 - present). His participation in many AID-organized talks and workshops at College Park and Baltimore, where close interactions with grassroots activists and workers from India, including jeevansaathis Ravi and Aravinda, have helped him shape his understanding and perspective on "developmental issues.”
 
Nirveek did his undergraduate studies in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India and is currently pursuing his PhD in Biomedical Engineering (specializing in neuro-engineering) at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, US. He will be joining University of Washington at Seattle as a post-doctoral fellow.