I am currently a post-doctoral research fellow in the Keck Center and Department of Physiology at UCSF in the San Francisco Bay Area. I did my graduate studies in the Computational Neurobiology program at University of California San Diego (UCSD) and Salk Institute. I moved with my lab to UC Berkeley in August 2007 after 4 years in San Diego, and started as a postdoc in UCSF in March 2009.

I am interested in Systems Neuroscience, especially in learning and memory, neural coding, plasticity, and information processing in neural circuits of the brain. For my post-doctoral work, I am studying how memories are stored and represented in the hippocampus, and the interaction of the hippocampus with decision-making areas in the brain. For my graduate work, I studied the rat vibrissa system in Dan Feldman's lab. Specifically, I investigated how sensory stimuli are represented in the somatosensory system using a combination of behavioral, electrophysiological and computational techniques.

I come from a small town in India called Karad in the the state of Maharashtra. I did my undergraduate in Engineering Physics in the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT). During my IIT days, I developed a renewed interest in biology, and especially neuroscience. In completing the transition from physics to neuroscience, I spent a year in National Center for Biological Sciences, Bangalore before I moved to UCSD for my graduate studies.

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