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My academic projects (mostly) - slightly fancier version of my CV ᓚᘏᗢ

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Research Assistant @ VisionLab, IISc

(June 2024 - Feb 2025)

Supervisor: Prof. SP Arun (IISc, Bangalore)

(1) How is agency encoded in the brain, while controlling a game character?
(2) Stages of sleep and visual imagery during sleep, in bonnet macaques.

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  • "Game-playing" tasks (solving 2D mazes) to study brain encoding of agency under reward-contingent conditions. Designed tasks in MonkeyLogic, trained two macaques, and collected neural data from a macaque during some versions of this task - alongside Sudhanshu Bharadwaj.
  • Demarcated different phases of sleep (REM/NREM) and studied the visual imagery during these phases. Working on publishing this project, as a part of a larger study with other lab members, on naturalistic behaviours in macaques.
(pictured ^) Won an award at the Indian Academy of Neurosciences annual conference (2024) for my poster presentation :)
design of an initial version of the task

Masters Thesis Project @ VisionLab, IISc

(June 2023 - April 2024)

Supervisor: Prof. SP Arun (IISc, Bangalore)

Neural Correlates of Sleep and Game-Playing in Bonnet Macaques

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  • Chapter 1: Patterns of neural activity during sleep (MUA/LFP signals), comparing wakefulness and sleep phases. MS Thesis
  • Chapter 2: Training macaques to perform maze-like tasks in MonkeyLogic. Joint work with Sudhanshu Bharadwaj. MS Thesis
A few summary figures of the project

Undergraduate Research @ Theoretical Neuroscience Lab

(August 2022 - April 2023)

Supervisor: Dr. Collins Assisi (IISER Pune)

Route to chaotic dynamics in “Sudoku” Neuronal Networks

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  • Modeled chaotic dynamics in neuronal networks using excitation-inhibition balance, with Sudoku-inspired connectivity.
  • Explored transitions between limit cycles using Mirollo-Strogatz coupled oscillators and synaptic plasticity.
Links: Nov '22 Poster | Jan '23 Poster | Code
Neuromatch group project!

Neuromatch Academy - Computational Neuroscience

(July 2022)

Student @ NMA Computational Neuroscience 2022

Modulation of cortical visual interneuron activity by stimulus novelty

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Links: Slides | Colab Notebook

Undergraduate Research Project @ IIT Bombay

(January 2022 - April 2022)

Supervisors: Prof. Rohit Manchanda, Nitin Anisetty (IIT Bombay)

Variable time-step integration (cvode) in NEURON

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  • Played around with the NEURON software for cellular neurophysiology modeling, alongside reading Johnston and Wu's Foundations of Cellular Neurophysiology.
  • Helped debug an implementation of variable time-step integration (Cvode) in NEURON.
iGEM IISER Pune 2021 Webpage

iGEM 2021 - Team IISER-Pune-India

(February 2021 - November 2021)

Supervisor: Prof. Thomas Pucadyil (IISER Pune)

Recycling CO2 for Bio-manufacturing Using a Co-culture of Cyanobacteria and E. coli

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  • Won gold medal, nominated for Best Manufacturing Project and Best Education.
  • Worked on dry lab modeling using Flux Balance Analysis (MATLAB).
  • Built project website!
Links: iGEM Website | GitHub
SAM (portal) webpage login

Automatic CAPTCHA Chrome Extension

(January 2022 & August 2024)

SAM-autocaptcha

Google Chrome extension that automatically fills in the "CAPTCHA" form element for IISER Pune's SAM portal (Academic ERP) login form.

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  • Updated Aug' 2024 to v2.0: Updated to use Tesseract.js to perform the OCR locally on the browser, instead of using a free API.
Links: GitHub
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