Ms. Soibam Rebika Devi was born in the year 1976 in Imphal, Manipur. She completed her B.Sc. Botany (1998) and M.Sc. Botany (2002) from Manipur University, M.A. Linguistics (2007) and M.A. Translation Studies (2010) from Annamalai University and underwent a ten-month Diploma Course in Tamil in the Southern Regional Language Centre of the Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore (2004-05). She started her career as a High School teacher in Manipur. At present she is working as a Resource Person in the National Translation Mission, Central Institute of Indian Languages, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, Manasagangotri, Mysore. She had worked as a Resource Person in two projects, viz., Preparation of 'A Semantically Classified Vocabulary: Tamil-English-Manipuri' and 'Editing the manuscripts of Multimedia Materials prepared in twenty Indian languages'. She has presented eight research articles in the National and International seminars and conferences. She has conducted a survey on Knowledge Text Scenario in Manipur and participated in six workshops organized by National Translation Mission for the translation of Knowledge Texts into Manipuri.