About Me
Hi, my name’s Guru and I’m a research assistant in the Cognitive, Computational and Behavior Lab at Centre for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru.
I am most skilled in: Neuroimaging and talking to cats
Research Interests:
- Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience
- Neuroimaging and Neuromodulation
- Computational Psychiatry
- Machine Learning
Projects
TATA Longitudinal Study on Aging (TLSA)
github.com/gguruprasath/TATA_Longitudinal_Study_On_Aging-TLSA-This is one of the very few longitudinal studies done on the Asian population (India) to understand the healthy aging and cognitive decline in the elderly urban cohort. The study aims at the identification of the non-invasive biomarkers of Alzheimer's dementia through behavioral and neuroimaging approaches.
I started this project as a fresh graduate with a Biomedical Engineering background specialized in Radiology. In addition to learning to code with Matlab and Python, I collected and analyzed more than 400+ human behavior and 250+ MR neuroimaging data. This project helped me understand the deteriorating human cognition across life span while interacting with healthy, mild cognitively-impaired, and Alzheimer’s patients. It shaped how I interacted with my colleagues and provided me an extraordinary opportunity to work with talented collaborators with a diverse background in mathematics, engineering, and biological sciences.
Research Experience
The Cognition, Computation and Behavior Lab
www.cns.iisc.ac.in/sridharResearch Assistant
August 2016 - December 2020
Solving 21st-century problems by understanding the structural and functional organization of the human brain in healthy as well as diseased brain using non-invasive neuroimaging tools
I learned to conduct behavioral and neuroimaging experiments on a diverse cohort of elderly healthy aging and diseased populations. I also learned the objective of model building to understand the human executive functions such as attention and working memory.
Education
SASTRA University
Bachelor of Technology in Bioengineering
2009 - 2013
I did extensive interdisciplinary courses across Mathematics, Engineering, and Biological sciences disciplines ranging from Linear Algebra, Calculus, Probability and Statistics, Cell Signaling, Electrophysiology, Molecular Genetics, Neurobiology and Cognitive Sciences, Bio-fluid Dynamics, Biomedical Instrumentation, Tissue Engineering, LASER Physics.
A Little More About Me
Alongside my interests in Neuroscience, some of my other interests and hobbies are:
- Amateur Astronomy
- Utopian Sci-fi movies
- Chasing my cat Leia