CNS Lab @ IIT Madras

SRINIVASA CHAKRAVARTHY. V
Professor
Computational Neuroscience Laboratory
Bhupat and Jyoti Mehta School of Biosciences Building
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Chennai, India (600036)

Room No. BT 505
Tel: 91-44-2257 4115 (O)
91-44-2257 6115 (R)

Fax: (+91)-44-22574102

email: schakra@ee.iitm.ac.in

Education

Post Doc	Neuroscience Division, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston	July 1996 - Aug 1997
Ph.D.	Electrical Engineering, University of Texas, Austin	Dec 1991 - July 1996
M.S.	Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas, Austin	Aug 1989 - Dec 1991
B.Tech.	Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras	May 1985 - May 1989

Professional Experience

Professor, Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.	May 2010-present
Associate Professor, Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.	May 2006-May 2010
Assistant Professor, Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.	Sep 2004 – April 2006
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.	Jan 2000 – Sep 2004

Visiting Researcher
RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Wako-shi, Saitama, Japan.

May-July 2009 and

May-June 2010.

Software Engineer Baker Atlas International, Houston	Aug 1997-Dec 1999
Post Doctoral Associate Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, Division of Neuroscience, Baylor College Of Medicine	Jul 1996 - Aug 1997
Research Assistant Laboratory for Artificial Neural Systems, University of Texas, Austin.	Jan 1990 - May 1996
Research Assistant Schlumberger Laboratory for Computer Science, Austin	May 1992 - Dec 1993

Current Research

Computational Neuroscience

Modeling Basal ganglia: To develop an integrated model of the basal ganglia that could explain the multitudinous functions of these structures within the framework of reinforcement learning.
Motoneuron recruitment: Modeling motoneuron recruitment in skeletal muscle using oscillatory networks.
Neuromotor modeling of Handwriting: Developing a neuromuscular model of handwriting generation involving oscillatory neural networks.

Computational Cardiology

Capillary oscillations: Developing the consequences of our hypothesis that chaotic vasomotion is conducive to efficient oxygenation
Cardiac Memory: The study the link between gap-junctions and cardiac memory through computational models

Handwritten Character Recognition:

Online Character recognition: Developing handwritten character recognition systems in Indian languages: Hindi, Telugu, Kannada and Tamil.

Courses Taught

Undergraduate:	Graduate:
Control Theory	Neural networks
Networks and Systems	Computational Neuroscience
Electric and Magnetic circuits	Biological Vision
Introduction to Biology	Principles of neuroscience

Outreach

Project Outreach was started with the sole aim of science popularization through books, newspaper and electonic media in regional languages. As a part of the project science books were translated to different Indian languages, original books introducing multifaceted science were published, a weekly column in Telugu daily were published and a Telugu blog was formed. For more details click here.