Curriculum Vitae

Education

PhD (Ongoing) IIT Madras & CMC Vellore, India

Topic: Machine learning models for arm-use assessment in Stroke using wearable sensors.
Advisors: Dr Varadhan SKM, Dr Sivakumar Balasubramanian

M.Sc. Computational Neuroscience TU Berlin & Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany

Thesis: The formation of positive prediction-error neurons in heterogeneous interneuron circuits.
Advisors: Prof. Henning Sprekeler, Dr Loreen Hertäg

M.Tech Computer Science and Engineering ASE, Bangalore, India
B.Tech Information Technology University of Kerala, India

Awards and Scholarships

PMRF Fellowship, Govt. of India July 2023 - Present
Gold Medal - University First Rank, M.Tech Aug 2016
PG Scholarship (GATE/GPAT), AICTE, Govt. of India Aug 2014 - 2016

Work Experience

Lab Rotation Student Apr - Oct 2020

Technische Universität, Berlin

Reproduction of computational studies on 'auditory cortex' and 'presynaptic inhibition' from scratch, using Python and numba. Labs: Neural Information Processing Group and Modelling of Cognitive Processes group

Lab Rotation Student Apr - Jul 2019

Charité-Universitätsmedizin, Berlin

Convolutional neural networks for predicting gender from resting state-fMRI connectome data and visualization of the connectivity edges that led to gender differentiation in the model, using PyTorch. Lab: Machine Learning in Clinical Neuroimaging

Tech Grad Intern Feb - Jun 2016

Cisco Systems Ltd, Bangalore

Development of user-interface and database of a desktop application for an in-house schematic modelling analysis tool