Professor Ph.D, University of Texas M.S., University of Texas

Office: BT 505 Tel: +91-44-2257-4115 Email: schakra@iitm·ac·in Lab: BT 511 (Website)

Research Interests

Computational Neuroscience

• Modeling Basal Ganglia to understand Parkinson’s disease
• Modeling neuro-glio-vascular interactions
• Modeling visuomotor dynamics of copying
• Modeling the development of topographic maps in the brain

Computational Cardiology

• Modeling Cardiac memory
• Role of chaotic vasomotion in microvascular dynamics
• Computational electrophysiology

Biomedical Engineering

• Extracting Gastric Motility information from finger Photoplethysmography (PPG)

Pattern Recognition

• Online handwritten Character Recognition in Indian Languages

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