Research Profile
I'm a computer science major that has migrated over to computational neuroscience over the years. I am interested in various areas of neuroscience---structural, synaptic, homeostatic plasticity; cortical and cerebellar processing; tools 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.
Work
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 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.
Visiting Lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire
(2014 - 2020)
I was a visiting lecturer at the School of Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, Astronomy, and Mathematics at UH. I taught on modules related to computing, and supervised undergraduate and post-graduate projects.
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.
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
Volunteering
OCNS
(2019 - 2021)
I am a member of the Board of Directors for Organisation for Computational Neuroscience (OCNS), where I am in-charge of the web resources used by OCNS.
If you see an issue with any of the OCNS web resources, please let me know (or file an issue on Github here)
INCF/OCNS Software working group
I am a member of the INCF/OCNS Software working group. We focus on all things related to the software used in Neuroscience---development, training, dissemination, and so on. Please, join us.
NeuroFedora: Free Software for Free Neuroscience
I am part of the team that builds and maintains NeuroFedora. Our goal is to provide a large set of neuroscience software to users in an easy, ready to use way---via the Fedora Linux distribution.
Resume
My resume can be found here.
Publications
My publications can be seen on a separate page.