I joined as an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Brain Science and Applications (CBSA) in the School of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (SAIDE) at Indian Institute of Technology-Jodhpur in 2021. Prior to this, I worked as a Post-doc Researcher at European Neuroscience Institute, Goettingen, Germany. I obtained a PhD in Neuroinformatics from Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi in 2018. 

Research in the Network and Cognitive Neuroscience Lab aims to understand how complex cognition emerges from interactions within large-scale brain networks and how these processes can be formally captured using computational models of behavior.

One central direction of our work focuses on brain connectivity. We investigate how distributed cortical and subcortical systems interact at rest and further, how they support flexible cognition. A second major direction of our work focuses on computational modeling of cognition. We use behavioral data to build formal models that reveal the latent mechanisms underlying decision-making and perception. Our work examines how cognitive processes such as learning from reward history, motivational states, working memory, and perceptual inference interact to shape behavior. By fitting computational models to behavioral data, we aim to quantify hidden cognitive variables—such as value representations, sensory precision, and internal decision variables—that cannot be directly observed.

“We’ll never have true AI without first understanding the brain”