About me

I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Imperial College London in the research group of Prof. Claudia Clopath. Here, I am working on developing unsupervised models of systems memeory consolidation. I am also applying maching learning models to explain experimental data and guide experimental design. I completed my PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Tatjana Tchumatchenko at the University Hospital in Bonn, Germany. For my PhD project, I developed models of mRNA and protein trafficking to understand mechanisms of synaptic plasticity (preprint). I also developed a semi-automated tool for simplifying structural and molecular analysis of neuronal imaging data (Paper). For an overview of biophysical modeling of mRNA and protein trafficking, read our published review here.

Brief history

Before starting my PhD in 2020, I worked as a junior research fellow in the laboratory of Prof. Upinder Singh Bhalla at the National Centre for Biological Science in Bangalore, India. In his lab, I worked on developing a web-interface for the FindSim tool. I also managed to set-up the heavy simulations on the supercomputers at Neuroscience gateway at UCSD using REST framework. In addition to these software development projects, I also worked on optimizing a biochemical signaling model of autism. I obtained my M.Tech from Biological Sciences and BioEngineering department at the Indian Institute for Technology Kanpur, India. I wrote my master’s theis on a novel smarthphone/android-based suite of games that for autistic children. Before that, I did my bachelor’s in computer engineering from Indore, India.

My research intersts include modeling synaptic plasticity, neuro-inspired deep learning, systems memory consolidation and data analysis.