Curriculum Vitae

Education

PhD Neuroscience | Università di Trento, Italy (2024-Present)

○ Optimising Microstructural MRI Methods with CIMeC and Siemens Healthineers

○ Supervised by: Prof. Jorge Jovicich 

MSc Neuroscience | King’s College London, United Kingdom (2022-2023)

○ Overall Grade: 2:1 (High Merit)

○ Specialisation: Neuroimaging Research (Distinction)

BSc Chemistry | University of Mumbai, India (2019-2022)

○ Overall Grade: 8.87 CGPA

○ Additional Credits: Psychology, Neuroscience

Skillset

Research Experience

Summer Intern (Full-Time) | Neuromatch (Computational Neuroscience) | Jul 2024 – Aug 2024 

• Project: Predicting Risky Decision-Making in Healthy Adults using fMRI and Recurrent Neural Networks | Abstract | Code

• Key Responsibilities: Performed functional connectivity analysis to identify the brain parcels relevant for the HCP gambling task, Extracted the time series and trained a GLM, LSTM and a hybrid GLM + LSTM model to predict the gambling outcome of a holdout set based on the corresponding fMRI time series. 

Research Assistant (Part-Time) | King’s College London, United Kingdom | Sep 2023 – May 2024 

• Project 1: Investigating the Role of OFC-Accumbens White Matter Pathways in Psychopathology 

• Project 2: Comparative Methodological Research on Deep Learning vs Manual Approaches to Tractography

Graduate Researcher (Full-Time) | King’s College London, United Kingdom | Mar 2023 – Sep 2023

• Project Title: Mapping the Subcortical Dopaminergic Connectivity in Young Adults using Diffusion Tractography

• Key Responsibilities: MRI Preprocessing, Virtual Dissections, Data Analysis, Dissemination    

Undergraduate Researcher (Full-Time) | St. Xavier's College, Mumbai, India | Sep 2021 – Jun 2022 

• Project Title: Light exposure during the COVID-19 lockdowns - relevance to circadian rhythm, mood and sleep quality.

• Key Responsibilities: Participant Recruitment, Sleep quality assessment (PSQI), Data Analysis (Python)

Research Intern (Part-Time) | Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, India | Jun 2021 – Sep 2021 

• Project Title: Constructing a low-cost EMG based body-computer interface (bio-amplifier).

• Key Responsibilities: Constructed a bio-amplifier using Arduinos, Ag//AgCl electrodes and EMG sensors, acquired and analysed data from amateur athletes to track their heart rate and blood oxygen saturation levels (pulse oximetry)

Work Experience

Medical Writer (Part-Time) | Klarity Health Library, United Kingdom | Feb 2024 – Present

• Key Responsibilities: Authoring articles on medical conditions, translational research, and clinical interventions.

• Key Skills: Medical Communication, Critical Editing, Organizational Skills, and SEO Optimization  

Science Tutor (Part-Time) | Jothi Learning, United Kingdom | Feb 2024 – Present

• Key Responsibilities: Remotely Teaching GCSE Chemistry, Physics, and Mathematics to UK-based Students.

• Key Skills: Course Designing, Science Communication, Student Engagement.  

Teaching Assistant (Part-Time) | King’s College London, United Kingdom | Sep 2023 – Apr 2024

• Key Responsibilities: Mentored over 50 MSc Neuroscience students, Designed and Conducted 3 Workshops for DTI Tractography and Data Analysis in R, Facilitated Neuroimaging Lectures, Co-ordinated communications between faculties, students, and the academic hierarchy at King’s College London.

• Key Skills: Science Communication, Academic Administration, Project Co-ordination, and Student Engagement.