Welcome to my webpage
Bits, Brains, Blue Planet
I graduated with my PhD from UC Berkeley at the Redwood Center for theoretical neuroscience. My advisors was Michael R Deweese. My thesis committee chair was Bruno Olshausen. The rest of my thesis committee included - Jitendra Malik, Pieter Abbeel and Alyosha Efros.
I spent my PhD understanding sensorimotor representations in machines and in brains. I also worked on fast inference algorithms for high dimensional probabilistic models with MCMC methods. I also worked on applications of machine learning to problems in climate science. I am deeply interested in understanding the relationship between meditation and neuroscience.
I was a research scientist at Berkeley National Lab for a while. I also used to be the Head of AI and Engineering at Terrafuse. Presently, I am a co-investigator at the Sadhguru Center for a Conscious Planet.
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