Namaskaram 🙏🏽, I'm Vivek
I'm a PhD Student in Machine Learning at Georgia Tech where I am advised by Prof. Christopher Rozell and Dr. Sankaraleengam Alagapan.
My mission is to help people become the best versions of themselves and help them thrive. I believe that democratising neurotechnology can help us achieve that.
My research interests are at the intersection of Neuroscience, Machine Learning and Economics. I am particularly interested in understanding how people make cost benefit decisions in daily life. My PhD thesis research is on objectively quantifying motivation in humans to better treat psychiatric disorders.
Currently I am working on:
- Identifying the neural and body correlates of naturalistic effort based decision making (and motivation!) via highly instrumented tasks by analyzing SEEG, EMG, EKG and pupillometry.
- Developing quantitative and purely data driven machine learning methods to learn representations of subjective percepts like effort perception.
Other than research, I love to 🥾 hike, ⛷️ ski, 🏺 make pots (quite badly), 🧠 quiz and 📚 read.
If you would like to get in contact with me, please reach out via email.
Education
- PhD in Machine Learning Georgia Tech 2023–2028
- MS in Computer Science Georgia Tech 2021–2023
- BS (Honors) in Computer Science and Biology Penn State 2017–2021