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 was a recipient of the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation’s NARSAD Young Investigator Award (2019-22) and is currently a DBT-Wellcome Trust India Alliance Intermediate Fellow (2021-26).

In 2018, he co-founded Cogwear, a neurotech startup dedicated to brain health. Cogwear uses custom-made EEG bands combined with machine learning algorithms to monitor and trend changes in anxiety. More recently, in 2021, he co-founded Eywa Neuro, which focuses on developing thin-film polymer-based probes for surface and deep brain recording and stimulation.

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

He 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.

On the lighter side: no one’s quite sure if he’s ever turned down coffee or tea, missed out on a good laugh, or passed up a deep conversation, without a twinge of guilt. But honestly, he might be better off dialing down the competitiveness just a notch when it comes to sports!