Bio

I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar, India and an Adjunct Fellow at the Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany. Before starting my current position at IIT Ropar, I worked as a Research Fellow at Hasso Plattner Institute, Berlin (2022-2023) and as a Research Scientist at A*STAR, Singapore (2020-2022) (where I held a Visiting Scientist position from 2022-2023). I obtained my PhD in Computer Science from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore where my work (nominated for the outstanding PhD thesis award) focused on studying the functional architecture of the human brain. During my PhD, my research focused on using computer science to study the functional and structural aspects of the brain. Specifically, I develop methods to study the brain in different states, viz. resting, during task performance and neuropsychiatric diseases. I obtained a B. Eng. in Computer Science from Punjab Engineering College (PEC), India where the institute awarded me with the Institute Color for research activities during my UG.

I work in the AI in Healthcare domain where I develop models to study different types of biological/medical data. I am interested in pursuing collaborations with clinicians, trying to work in the clinical workflow that can be solved using computational techniques. I have collaborations spanning different countries in different domains in computer science and medicine and am always on the lookout for dedicated PhD/Master level students.