Meet The Makers

Assistant  Professor

Research Interests

• Multisensory perception, attention & working memory
• Large scale brain organization
• Neuroscience & AI
• Meditation & Consciousness

Email: vaibhav.tripathi@iitgn.ac.in

Lab Website: INT Lab

Education:

• BE: Delhi College of Engineering, 2012
• MTech: IIIT Delhi, 2018
• MA: Boston University, 2020
• PhD: Boston University, 2023

Office: 5/317
VOIP: 2635

Work Experience:

• Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, (Mar 2025 to Present)
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Brain Science & Department of Psychology, Harvard University, (Sep 2023 – Feb 2025)
• Research Trainee, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, (Dec 2021 to May 2023)
• Research Assistant, Centre for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science, (Jan 2015 to Dec 2015)
• Co-Founder, AhoLabs, (Jul 2013 to Dec 2014)
• Software Engineer & Data Scientist, Paytm (Jun 2012 to Jun 2013)

Research Publications:

1. Vaibhav Tripathi, Joshua Fox-Fuller, Vincent Malotaux, Ana Baena, Nikole Bonillas Felix, Sergio Alvarez, David Aguillon, Francisco Lopera, David C Somers, Yakeel T. Quiroz (2025). Connectome-based predictive modeling of brain pathology and cognition in Autosomal Dominant Alzheimer’s Disease. Alzheimer’s & Dementia.
2. Vaibhav Tripathi, Ishaan Batta, Andre Zamani, Daniel Atad, Sneha Sheth, Jiahe Zhang, Tor Wager, Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli, Lucina Q. Uddin, Ruchika Prakash, Clemens Bauer (2025). Default mode network functional connectivity as a transdiagnostic biomarker of cognitive function. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging.
3. Vaibhav Tripathi, Laura Rigolo, Bethany K. Bracken, Alexandra J. Golby, Yanmei Tie, David C. Somers (2024). Utilizing resting-state functional connectivity-based motor prediction models for presurgical planning. Human Brain Mapping, 45 (10), e26764.
4. Suruchi Fialoke, Vaibhav Tripathi, Sonika Thakral, Anju Dhawan, Vidur Mahajan, Rahul Garg (2024). Functional connectivity changes in meditators and novices during yoga nidra practice. Scientific Reports, 14 (1), 12957. co-first author
5. Vaibhav Tripathi, David C Somers (2023). Predicting an Individual’s Cerebellar Activity from Functional Connectivity Fingerprints. NeuroImage,Volume 281.
6. Vaibhav Tripathi, Rahul Garg (2022). Weak Task Synchronization of Default Mode Network in task based paradigms. NeuroImage, Volume 251, 118940.
7. Vaibhav Tripathi, Pallavi Bharadwaj (2021). Neuroscience of yogic theory of consciousness. Neuroscience of Consciousness, Volume 2021, Issue 2.

Visiting Assistant Professor

Research Areas: Phenomenology, Neurophenomenology, Embodied Cognition, Colour

E-mail: amcblane@iitgn.ac.in

My research intersects with the philosophical aspects of Cognitive Science via my focus on Phenomenology and Posthumanism. Phenomenology, particularly in its Merleau-Pontyian form, informs my analytic focus on embodiment and attendant areas such as embodied cognition, intentionality, experience, and expression. Posthumanism, particularly in its more philosophical deployments, informs my research, on the one hand, on how we can approach non-human forms of embodiment and consciousness and, on the other, the use and development of new technologies (as well their exploration in Science Fiction) as they relate to extended and distributed cognition, artificial intelligence, and embodiment.

Education:

• PhD: Cardiff University, 2014
• MA: Queen’s University, Canada, 2008
• BA: Simon Fraser University, Canada, 2006

Selected Publications:

• ‘Expressing Corporeal Silence: Phenomenology, Merleau-Ponty, and Posthumanism.’ Word and Text: A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics, Special Issue on Proto-Posthumanisms. Vol. VI (Dec 2016), pp.149-161.  
• Co-Authored with Phillip Roberts, “Science Fiction” in Directory of World Cinema: South Korea, ed. by Colette Balmain (Bristol: Intellect, 2013), pp. 211-21
• “The Good, The Bad, and the Weird”; “2009: Lost Memories”; “Natural City”; “Resurrection of the Little Match Girl”, in Directory of World Cinema: South Korea, ed. by Colette Balmain (Bristol: Intellect, 2013), pp. 101-103, 215-216, 221-222, 222-223.
• “Just a Ghost in a Shell?” in Anime and Philosophy: Wide-Eyed Wonder, ed. by Josef Steiff and Tristan Tamplin (Chicago: Open Court, 2010), pp. 27-38“Shogun Assassin”; “The Machine Girl”; “Tetsuo: The Iron Man”, “Tetsuo 2: Body Hammer”, in Directory of World Cinema: Japan, ed. by John Berra (Bristol: Intellect, 2010), pp. 97-98, 192-193, 220-222.
• “Shogun Assassin”; “The Machine Girl”; “Tetsuo: The Iron Man”; “Tetsuo 2: Body Hammer”; “Memories”; “Cowboy Bebop: The Movie”; “Blood: The Last Vampire”; “Vampire Hunter D”; “Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust”, (Online, 2009) Directory of World Cinema. http://worldcinemadirectory.org/

Courses Taught:

• HS 507 – Humanism, Anti-Humanism, and Posthumanism
  
• HS 647 – Literature, Theory, and Social Context