Chaitanya Kapoor

I am an incoming graduate student at UC San Diego's Department of Cognitive Science. At present, I work as a post-baccalaureate research assistant at UC San Diego, advised by Prof. Meenakshi Khosla. My work focuses on developing mathematical tools and hypotheses for understanding the underlying neural representations of biological and artifical neural networks.

Earlier, I was mentored by Prof. Talmo Pereira at the Salk Institute of Biological Sciences, where I am working on the development of pose estimation methods for quantification of animal behavior.

I graduated from BITS Pilani, majoring in Electrical and Electronics Engineering. I was also a visiting student at the Senseable Intelligence Lab, under the supervision of Prof. Satrajit Ghosh, where I completed my undergraduate thesis on developing a domain-randomized generative framework for synthesizing photorealistic light-sheet microscopy images.

My current research interests lie at the intersection of Machine Learning and Neuroscience. My long-term goal is to design biologically-constrained neural networks by reverse engineering underlying neural computations in mammalian brains.

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