Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering (BSBE)
The remarkable capabilities organized by the brain from seeing to singing, from remembering to running -- originate in the electrical activities of neurons. Neurons interact with each other forming circuits, which process sensory information and drive appropriate behaviors. We are interested in understanding the fundamental mechanisms used by neural circuits for processing information. Our initial focus is on circuits in deeper layers of the olfactory system (sense of smell). We use a variety of insects as model systems, including grasshoppers, flies and mosquitoes, and a variety of techniques, including in vivo electrophysiology, histology, behavioral observations, genetic manipulations, and computational modeling.
Department of BSBE, IIT Kanpur
IIT Kanpur,
Kanpur 208016
Systems neuroscience, olfaction, computational biology.
PhD program in Bioinformatics & systems biology, University of California San Diego, 2009.Thesis Title: Computational and Comparative Proteogenomics: Annotating Genomes and Proteomes using Tandem Mass SpectrometryThesis Supervisor: Pavel Pevzner
B.Tech., Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Kanpur, 2004.
Computational Biology, Neuroscience
2010-2014: Post-doc at the National Institutes of Health, USA.
2014-Present: Assistant Professor, BSBE, IIT Kanpur.