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I am a postdoctoral researcher working with Dr. Cecile Verbaarschot in the Department of Neurological Surgery at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. I am interested in understanding the sensorimotor system’s cortical and peripheral circuits to develop translational therapies for diseased neural states. My current research centers on multi-region intracortical BCIs and cross-area neural dynamics for sensorimotor control.

I completed my Ph.D. in Neuroengineering at the Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and worked as a visiting graduate student at Center for Neural Science and Medicine (CNSM), Cedars-Sinai. My doctoral research work with Dr. Tanuj Gulati focused on cerebellar brain-machine interfaces to understand cortico-cerebellar motor network dynamics in healthy vs stroke-injured brains. This work was supported by the American Heart Association predoctoral fellowship.

I am passionate about everything related to neurotech. Over the course of my professional journey, I have gained diverse experience across academia and industry. I earned my M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station and my undergraduate degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Warangal, India. During my master’s, I worked at Integrated Neuro-Prosthetics Lab (INPL) developing novel ways of modulating sensory feedback for improving rehabilitation and human-machine interfaces. Our published work establishes transcutaneous electrical stimulation as a novel method of modulating proprioception.