
Post Doctoral Fellow at Allen Institute for Brain Science
Greater Seattle Area

Post Doctoral Fellow at Allen Institute for Brain Science
Greater Seattle Area
Advisor: Zachary F Mainen
Experience: PhD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Cognitive neuroscience of decision making. Olfaction, neurocognitive phenotyping
Career Interests; Psychiatric disorders, Rodent models of cognition, biotechnology (Basic and translational research).
Authoring brief and large documents (thesis, research papers, conference abstracts)
Data analysis and statistics
Apparatus and analysis automation in Matlab
MS Office use for publishing and presentations.
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Research industry)
July 2002 — January 2008 (5 years 7 months)
Advisor: Prof Zachary F Mainen
Graduate student: Develop rodent models of cognitive behavior in order to bridge psychology, neuroscience and molecular genetics.
Successfully conceptualized, designed, performed experiments, analyzed data, presented and published novel findings on olfactory psychophysics (speed of olfactory processing and decision making), neuroeconomics of decision making, learning under uncertainty and orienting attention to moments in time.
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(Educational Institution; Research industry)
September 2000 — August 2001 (1 year)
Advisor: Dr Shawn Lockery
Successfully developed an assay, collected data and published results in order to understand the genetic basis and navigational stretagies used by worms for thermotaxis
Publication: First author paper in J Neuroscience 2003
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Biotechnology industry)
July 1998 — May 2000 (1 year 11 months)
MS student in Biotechnology
(Research industry)
1998 — 1999 (1 year)
Ph.D, Neuroscience, 2001 — 2007
MS, Biotechnology, 1998 — 2000
Summer internship 1999: NCBS, TIFR Bangalore, India
BS, Life Sciences and Biochemistry, 1995 — 1998
BSc, Biochemistry and Life Sciences, 1995 — 1998
Biotechnology industry and the Wall Street.
Society for Neuroscience 2003-Present
NYAS Student Member 2002-2004
April 2006 International fellowship on “Sense of Smell” at the Institute of Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University, Israel.
Oct 2004 International fellowship for the Bayesian Brain: Okinawa Computational Neuroscience Course;
2001 – 2002 Presidential Fellowship, SUNY Stony Brook.
1998 – 2000 Recipient of Govt. of India Department of Biotechnology Fellowship for MS
1999, 2000 National summer internship at NCBS, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India
2000 Recipient of Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (India) fellowship.