'A Vegan Introvert Mortal, Affective Computing Researcher, Computer Science Teacher, Traveller, and Theravada Buddhism & Art of Living's breath-work practitioner in this lifetime.'
A 'Postdoctoral Researcher' at the Center for Machine Vision and Signal Analysis (CMVS), University of Oulu, Finland advised by Prof. Xiaobai Li and an 'Affiliated Scientist' at the Meditation Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University, directed by Prof Matthew D. Sacchet.
Prior to this, did Ph.D. at the Machine Intelligence Lab, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India, advised by Prof. R. Balasubramanian. Also worked at Georgia Institute of Technology USA, Osaka Metropolitan University Japan, Oracle IDC, Samsung R&D and PaiByTwo Pvt. Ltd. in various positions.
Research areas include Affective Computing (Emotion AI), Machine Learning, Interpretable AI, Mental Health and Cognitive Neuroscience. Please find further details in the CV.
Ph.D. (Computer Science)
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India, 2022
M.E. (Computer Science)
Thapar University, India, 2018
B.E. (Computer Science)
Manipal University, India, 2014
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I am a programmable (learn from experiences) program, programmed to program (build software applications). The experiences that have programmed me are to travel, click photos, read/listen books/audio-books/podcasts, meditate, sing & play guitar, work out and know about psychology, physiology, philosophy, buddhism, health & nutrition, personal finance, neuroscience, mental health, cosmology, veganism, and climate change.