The Speaker

Dr. Rakesh Sengupta is working as Assistant Professor & Director, Center for Creative Cognition, SR University, Warangal, Telangana. He is a cognitive scientist specializing in vision, attention, and working memory. While working on his dissertation, Rakesh spent two years as a visiting fellow at Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CiMec) at the University of Trento, Italy. He completed his PhD from the Center for Neural and Cognitive Science, University of Hyderabad in 2015 with a thesis entitled, "Computational and Empirical Investigations of Number, Time, and Memory". Upon completing his doctorate, Rakesh spent two years as a postdoc at Centre for Vision Research at York University in Toronto, Canada. His current research involves building computational models of the human number system and working memory using computational, theoretical, behavioral, and neuroimaging methods. He has published and has interest in the disciplines of Behavioral and Computational Neuroscience, Psychology, Philosophy of Mind, Neuroimaging, Biophysics, and Machine Learning. He is also a reviewer for journals, Cognition, Scientific Reports, and Nature Human Behavior.