Dr. Arjun Ramakrishnan

Dr. Arjun Ramakrishnan is an assistant professor in Biological Sciences and Bioengineering and the Mehta Family Centre for Engineering in Medicine at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He is a DBT-Wellcome Trust India Alliance Intermediate Fellow (2021-26) and the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation's NARSAD Young Investigator (2019-22).

He co-founded Cogwear in 2018, a neurotechnology startup that makes use of custom-made, flexible, dry nanowire-based sensors to gather EEG signals; these signals are used to train machine learning algorithms to measure and trend changes in anxiety.

He recently co-founded Eywa Neuro in 2021, a startup that develops thin film polymer based probes for surface and deep brain recording and stimulation of brain activity.

His primary research interest lies in understanding the neural mechanisms underlying reward-guided decision making in health and in disease, with a focus on mood disorders in human and nonhuman primate models.

Arjun holds a PhD in Neuroscience from the National Brain Research Centre and a BE in Telecommunications from BMS College of Engineering. He trained as a postdoctoral fellow at Duke University and the University of Pennsylvania.

Here's the most recent version of his CV.