Education and Experience

Sep 2022 - till date Research Engineer at Carl Zeiss 

Mar 2022 -  Aug 2022 Post-doc, Vision Lab, Centre for Neuroscience, IISc Bangalore, India.

Aug 2021- Mar 2022 Research Fellow, Vision Lab, IISc.  

Jul 2015 -  Jul 2021 PhD, Vision Lab, Electrical Communication Engineering, IISc Bangalore, India.

Mar 2014 - Jul 2015 Junior Research Fellow, Signal Processing Systems Division, NPOL, Defence Research Development Organization, India

Sep 2012 - Mar 2014 Lecturer, Saintgits College of Engineering, Kottayam

Aug 2010 - Aug 2012 M-Tech, Signal Processing, College of Engineering Trivandrum, Kerala, India

Aug 2006 - July 2010 B-Tech, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology, Kerala, India.

News

• May 2024:  Attending ARVO 2024

• Sep 2023:  Completed 1 year @ Zeiss

• Sep 2022: Joining Carl Zeiss as Research Engineer. 

• May 2022: Attended VSS 2022. Gave a talk titled "Visual search asymmetries are explained by visual homogeneity" 

• Apr 2022:  Received SERB Travel Award for attending VSS 2022

• Mar 2022: Received the Elsevier/Vision Research Travel Award for attending VSS 2022

• Mar 2022: Defended my thesis and joined as a post-doc in Vision Lab. 

• Nov 2021: The methods paper about our monkey lab is accepted in eLife!

• Aug 2021: Joined a Research Associate at Vision Lab. 

• July 2021: Submitted my PhD thesis.

• July 2021: Lead TA for the Neuromatch Academy 2021. 

• May 2021:  Poster session at Vision Sciences Society 2021 on "Target-absent visual search reveals distinctiveness computations in the brain". (Poster) (Walk-Through)

• Mar 2021: Received the Elsevier/Vision Research Travel Award for presenting at the V-VSS 2021! 

• Feb 2021:  The study on perception in deep networks and brains is accepted in Nature Communications!  (News, Nat Comm. Editors highlights)

• Oct 2020:  The study on the perception of global and local shape is accepted in Journal of Vision! 

• July 2020: TA for the Neuromatch Academy 2020. Great opportunity to learn while teaching.  

• June 2020: Talk at Vision Sciences Society 2020 on "Why target-absent searches so systematic?". (Talk)

• Feb 2020:  Won the VSS 2020 T-shirt and graphics design contest! 

• Aug 2019:  Attending Brains, Minds, and Machines summer course at Woods Hole, MA. 

• May 2018:  Attending VSS 2018. Giving a talk titled "Comparing perception in deep neural networks and humans"

• Mar 2018: Received SERB Travel Award for attending VSS 2018