Professional Journey

📚 Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (2015-2019)
  School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  Thesis: Epilepsy diagnosis from EEG; A machine learning approach
  Supervisors: Dr. Justin Dauwels, Dr. Brandon Westover, Dr. Sydney Cash

• Bachelor of Technology (2010-2014)
  Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Calicut, India
  Thesis: Physical layer design for underwater acoustic communication
  Supervisor: Dr. A. V. Babu

💼 Employment History

2023-Present Research Scientist

Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, USA
Supervisor: Dr. Birgit Frauscher, Director of Duke Comprehensive Epilepsy Center

On-going Projects:

• Deep phenotyping of stereo-EEG data for optimizing epilepsy surgery
• Utilizing Large language models to derive and standardize seizure semiology
• Multicenter clinical evaluation of stereo-EEG biomarkers for epilepsy surgery
• Intracranial thalamic stimulation for modulating sleep-epilepsy networks
• Longitudinal assessment of sleep quality using wearables
• Determining variability in epileptic spike morphology across vigilance states

On-going Collaborative Projects:

• Development of EEG-based biometric system to identify friend and foe in defense application (Dr. Jac Fredo, IITBHU - Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), India)
• Music therapy’s potential to reduce epileptic activity in drug-resistant focal epilepsy (Dr. Thaera Arafat, Dr. Firas Fahoum, Tel Aviv Medical Center, Israel)
• Evaluating long-term effects of pulsatile corticoid therapy in children with genetic drug-resistant epilepsy (Dr. Katharina Schiller, Dr. Markus Rauchenzauner, Children’s Hospital Kaufbeuren, Bavaria, Germany)

2021-2023 Postdoctoral Fellow

Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Canada
Supervisors: Dr. Jean Gotman, Dr. Birgit Frauscher

Projects:

• Developing computational stereo-EEG biomarkers for aiding epilepsy surgery
• Evaluation of human sleep patterns within the brain and their relationship to memory function and abnormal activity
• Analysis of intracerebral epileptic and sleep patterns during auditory stimulation
• International survey-based evaluation of current stereo-EEG-based epilepsy surgery practices and terminology

2019-2020 Postdoctoral Fellow

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Supervisor: Dr. Justin Dauwels

Projects:

• Developing automated deep learning-based detectors for identifying epilepsy patterns such as spikes, seizures, and slowing
• Integrating the detectors with the commercial product
• Developing an automated deep learning-based model for autism diagnosis using resting-state fMRI data

2019 Project Assistant

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore