PhD in Mechanical Engineering. I build tech to study the brain. Talk neurotech to me.
Minneapolis, MN
Joined November 2014
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🎓PhD done! Time for a short break before embarking on the next exciting journey! Stay tuned ;) #research #mechanical #neurosciences #milestone
My dissertation focused on the development of a novel neural interface technology, the CortexCAM , to reveal cortex-wide neural networks underlying complex behaviors such as spatial navigation and head direction. Read more here: assets-eu.researchsquare.com…
I had the great opportunity to be selected for @HHMIJanelia Workshop on 'Grounding Cognition in Mechanistic Insight', at the Janelia Research Campus (April 27- May 2). Sharing pictures from my presentation here. It was a fun and exciting experience!
I had the good opportunity to give an invited talk at Optica Biophotonics Congress held at Coronado, CA (April 22, 2025) on the development of a new class of neuroimaging devices for cortex-wide imaging in behaving model organisms.
It’s been a pleasure to meet with friends, peers and new researchers in Brain and Optics. I thank the organizers of this edition of the conference, especially @cboudoux for the opportunity and her inspiring words.
Thanks to my PI @bksuhasa for guiding and motivating me to pursue challenging research ideas. Thanks to all my collaborators and co-authors for their unwavering support and contributions to this work.
Last week, I had the opportunity to present my research work on the development of brain-wide neural interfaces at the Center for Neural Engineering (CNE) Seminar Series at University of Minnesota. I shared some recent updates from my research on cortex-wide neuroimaging device.
I would like to thank CNE for the invite. Special thanks to Prof. @TNetoff , Lead at CNE, for selecting my work for presentation and my PhD advisor Prof. @bksuhasa for the support and recommendation.
More about this seminar series here :
cne.umn.edu/cne-weekly-semin…
It was great to meet up with friends @StanfordBrain station. We were the first batch to attend the Neurobehavior workshop organised by @StanfordBrain and @StanfordMed . Highly recommend this for early career neuroscientists interested in diesease models and drug discovery #SfN24
And that’s a wrap at SfN24, Chicago. Engaging talks, buzzing poster sessions, scientific discussions, technology, and reunions. Always learning new things every year @SfNtweets . Looking forward to next year! #sfn2024
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New pre-print from our lab! We report on the automation of the delicate process of bone removal in rodent cranial microsurgeries. Video shows robotic eggshell engraving & comparison to a manual attempt by an experienced surgeon. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Interested in a scope that can detect neural activity from across the cortex in freely behaving 🐁? Check out our work on mini-MCAM that is up on Biorxiv. I’m happy to have co-led this work. Thanks to my PI, @bksuhasa for the opportunity. Next stop: Imaging the entire 🧠.
🚨 New pre-print!! We built a miniaturized device with an array of 4 micro-cameras that can each image multiple cortical areas in freely behaving mice. The mini-MCAM can image dozens of brain regions spread across >30 mm^2 of the cortical surface biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Pan-cortical cellular imaging in freely behaving mice using a miniaturized micro-camera array microscope (mini-MCAM) biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_neursci
Had an amazing experience presenting on the development of a novel miniaturized cortex-wide neuroimaging device for translational neuroscience at Optica Biomed '24!
#OpticaBiomed24 #BioPhotonics #ComputationalMicroscopy #OpticsAndTheBrain
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ME is home to tomorrow's leading engineers! 🏆 ME PhD students Arun Cherkkil, Ibrahim Oladepo, and Reza Yousofvand are recipients of 2024 Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowships, given to outstanding Ph.D. students. cse.umn.edu/me/news/three-me…
That’s a wrap at #BRAINInitiative @washingtondc . Another great experience talking with brain researchers, technologists and potential collaborators. Evermore motivated to engineer technologies that can help unravel the 🧠. #Neurotechnology #neuroscience .
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🚨 New pre-print alert!🚨 Led by the brilliant, twitter-less post-doc James Hope. We built a 🤖 exoskeleton for 🐭🐁 so we can study their 🧠's as they go around navigating their world. An e.g., imaging 1000s of neurons in the cortex when mice walk an 8-maze. A 🧵
Brain-wide neural recordings in mice navigating physical spaces enabled by a cranial exoskeleton biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #bioRxiv