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About Me

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I'm Ankur (pronounced 'ǝŋkur 'sInhɑ:, and written अँकुर िसनहा in Hindi).

By profession, I am a computational neuroscientist. I am also a Free Software enthusiast and believe in openness---in software and in science. I am interested in various areas of neuroscience---structural, synaptic, homeostatic plasticity; cortical and cerebellar processing; tools and infrastructure for neural modelling at various levels of detail and standardisation of computational models, and also the plethora of tools for data analysis.

I prefer Python to Matlab, and Open source software to proprietary tools.

I can be reached at ankursinha AT fedoraproject DOT org or via one of the various social media platforms linked to in the right hand side bar.

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Profile

Research Fellow at the Silver Lab at UCL

(March 2020 - )

I am currently a research fellow at the Silver Lab at University College London. Apart from the computational modelling research projects that are ongoing at the research group, I also focus on the development of the Open Source Brain platform, NeuroML and associated technologies.

Education

Ph.D. in Computational Neuroscience: UH Biocomputation

(2014 - 2020)

I earned my Ph.D. in Computational Neuroscience at the Biocomputation group at the University of Hertfordshire.

Primary supervisor: Professor Volker Steuber
Secondary supervisors: Dr Christoph Metzner, Professor Rod Adams, Dr Neil Davey, Professor Michael Schmuker.

Thesis: Structural Plasticity and Associative Memory in Balanced Neural Networks With Spike-Time Dependent Inhibitory Plasticity.

Masters by Research: UTS, Sydney

(2012 - 2014)

I completed my ME (by research) at the University of Technology, Sydney. I studied and modelled neuron sets that are related to navigation in the mammalian brain using the ROS robotic framework. I worked on head direction cells, place cells, grid cells, and boundary cells.

Supervisor: Dr Jack Wang

Thesis: Bio inspired navigation in a mobile dynamic environment

Resume

My resume can be found here.

Publications

My publications can be seen on a separate page.