Current and Past Labs
I have had the opportunity of working with many inspiring researchers who have been directly causal in my academic growth. Listed below are short descriptions of work I did with them, in reverse chronological order:
Prof. Steve Chang
Chang Lab, Psychology Department, Yale University
August, 2019 to PresentThe lab I am currently part of as a PhD student. We are investigating various properties of dyadic social behavior in monkeys, and its neural basis.
Prof. SP Arun
Vision Lab, Centre for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science
October, 2016 to April, 2019Spent a large part of my undergraduate life here, trying to understand how various attributes of visual objects combine, both at the neural and behavioral level, to result in visual perception.
Prof. Gabriel Kreiman
KLab, Ophthalmology Department, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
May, 2017 to July, 2017Worked here over a summer, first learning about convolutional neural networks, and then investigating whether introducing lateral connections within their layers equipped them to do pattern completion better.
Prof. Deepak Saini
SAInI's Lab, Dept. of Molecular Reproduction, Development, and Genetics, Indian Institute of Science
April, 2018 to September, 2018Worked here as a part of a team of undergraduates participating in iGEM, a genetic engineering competition. We designed plasmids to increase the efficiency of recombinant protein synthesis and harvesting in bacteria.
Prof. Dipankar Chatterji
DC Lab, Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science
May, 2015 to June, 2015Spent a summer working in the lab and standardized a density estimation metric for bacterial suspensions for a particular bacterial species.
Prof. Nagasuma Chandra
Chandra Lab, Department of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science
February, 2015 to April, 2015First research lab I worked in. Assisted a graduate student to computationally design and biochemically verify those proteins, for the detection of specific antigens.