Education
California Institute of Technology
Ph.D. in Social & Decision Neuroscience, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Chen Graduate Fellow
University of Massachusetts Amherst
M.S. in Computer Science
Technical University of Munich
Semester abroad, Electrical Engineering and Information Sciences
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering and M.Tech. in Communication Engineering
Minor in Mathematics for Computer Science
Professional experience
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Salk Institute for Biological Sciences
Data Scientist
Enolink Technologies
Developed AI algorithms for cancer detection through biomedical image analysis.
Research Engineer
Netradyne
Developed computer vision and deep learning algorithms for video object detection and tracking.
Team Member
IIT Madras Student Satellite Project
Helped develop a payload to detect high-energy particle emissions in the ionosphere.
Honors
- A. Michael and Ruth C. Lipper Graduate Fellow, 2025–2026
- Chen Graduate Innovator Grant, $10,000, 2024
- Travel Award to attend the NeuroAI meeting in Seattle, 2024
- Finalist, Caltech 3-Minute Thesis Competition, 2023
- Chen Graduate Innovator Grant, $3,000, 2022
- HSS Recruitment Fellowship, 2021
- Chen Graduate Fellowship, 2021
- ACM SIGEVO Travel Grant, 2019
- Travel Award, Arthur M. Sackler Colloquium, 2019
- Travel Award, IIT Madras Office of Alumni Affairs, 2015
- Innovative Student Project Award, IIT Madras, 2013
- Scholarship for Higher Education, India (top 1%), 2011
- Top 10% in the Indian National Astronomy Olympiad, 2009 and 2011
Teaching
California Institute of Technology
- 2026 · Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience
- 2025 · Head Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Neuroscience
- 2023, 2024 · Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Neuroscience
- 2024 · Teaching Assistant, Computational Principles of Biological and Non-Biological Reinforcement Learning
- 2022 · Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Economics
University of Massachusetts Amherst
- 2019 · Teaching Assistant, Advanced Machine Learning
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
- 2016 · Teaching Assistant, Signals & Systems
- 2015 · Teaching Assistant, Computer Aided Design Laboratory
- 2015 · Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Programming
Mentoring
- Aleksander Marinkovic, Caltech undergraduate (July 2024–Present)
- Ashug Gujirala, Caltech undergraduate (June 2024–Present)
- Ella Guo, Caltech FSRI program (July–August 2025)
- Matthias Kim, Caltech FSRI program (July–August 2025)
- Joseph Zhou, Caltech FSRI program (July–August 2025)
- Michael Nguyen Jr., University of California Davis (January–December 2025)
- Bartłomiej Sadowski, Caltech visiting researcher (January–July 2025)
- Brittany Rosario, Caltech FSRI program (July–August 2024)
- Ansh Tiwari, Caltech FSRI program (July–August 2024)
- Sarah Kumar, Bonita High School, California (June–August 2024)
Talks
“A neurocomputational account of stable and flexible goal commitment”
CNL Laboratory, Salk Institute · Invited
“Context-aware continual learning in humans”
Chen Graduate Innovator Symposium · Invited
“A neurocomputational account of hierarchical goal control”
Caltech Brain Imaging Center Seminar Series · Invited
“Neural underpinnings of narrative improvisation”
Chen Graduate Innovator Symposium · Invited
“Reinforcement learning with a network of spiking agents”
UCSD Computation Group Mini-Symposium · Invited
“Biologically plausible credit assignment in a network of neurons”
UCL Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit · Invited
“Lexicase selection in learning classifier systems”
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference · Contributed
Service
- Technical Program Committee, 8th Annual Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (2025)
- DEI Steering Committee Member, Caltech (2024–Present)
- Academic Affairs Co-Chair, NeuroTechers Caltech (2024–2025)
- Organizer, Caltech Brain Imaging Center Seminar Series (2022–2023)
- Board of Directors, Caltech Graduate Student Council (2022–2023)
- Public Policy Research Intern, Rakshak Foundation (2014)
- Correspondent, The Fifth Estate (2013–2014)
- Placement Coordinator, IIT Madras Placement Cell (2013–2014)
Patent
Detection of driving actions that mitigate risk
M. Campos, A. Gupta, V. S. Annapureddy, V. Gupta, H. Rahman, S. Aenugu, et al. · US Patent Application 16/702,118
Community outreach
- Public talk at a local brewery for a “Neuro on Tap” event (2026)
- Invited lecture at Polytechnic School, Pasadena, “Games for Studying the Mind” (2025)
- Public talk, “What Games Teach Us About Human and Artificial Intelligence” (2024)
- City of STEM, Los Angeles (2022)