Hi! I am a computational neuroscientist at Wispr AI, working on building wearable nerual interfaces.
Previously as a postdoc at Marder lab at Brandeis University, I was studying the emergence of circuit dynamics from intrinsic and synaptic properties of neurons. I used a combination of electrophysiological and computational/analytical techniques to build a real-time interface between a computer and biological neurons.
In my free time I like making neuroscience inspired art. Check out my illustrations!
Skills & Expertise
Experimental
· Extracellular in vivo electrophysiology
· Stereotactic surgery and electrode implantation
· Intracellular electrophysiology ( current-clamp and voltage-clamp sharp electrode recordings)
· Dynamic clamp using RTXI software with custom written C++ modules (real-time interface between living cells and a computer)
· Electromyographic (EMG) recordings
Software
· Python ( SciPy, PyTorch, Scanpy)
· MATLAB
· Julia
· C/C++
· RTXI (Real-Time eXperimental Interface)
· XPPAUT (phase plane and bifurcation analysis)
· Git
· Spike sorting software (Phy, Wave_clus, Simple Clust)
· Adobe Illustrator
Analytical
· Analysis of neural data (including spectral, correlation, regression analysis, clustering methods, ANNs, statistical tests)
· Mathematical modeling (data-driven models, biophysical neural models with the use of optimization algorithms)
· Phase plane and bifurcation analysis
My Research Projects
Learn more about the link between biophysical properties of the neurons and computations they perform.
Education & training
Post-Doctoral researcher, Marder lab ( October 2017 -present)
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA
Ph.D. in Physics. Minor: Neuroscience (2017)
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
M.S. in Physics; Biophysics track (2014)
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
M.S. in Radiophysical Methods in Neurobiology (2013)
N.I. Lobachevsky State University, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
B.S. in Radiophysics (2011)
N.I. Lobachevsky State University, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Additional training
Neuromatch Deep Learning Course, Aug 2-21, 2021
Group Project: https://github.com/Ninja-State/NMA-DL-Project
OIST Computational Neuroscience Course, June 16 – July 3, 2014
Okinawa, Japan