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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 FialokeVaibhav 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.

Sameer V. Dalvi

Smt. Meera and Prof. Girish K. Sharma Chair Professor

Research Interests
● Engineering stable microbubbles formulations for biomedical applications
● Precipitation and stabilization of nnanoparticles in aqueous suspensions
● Supercritical fluid processing

Education:

BTech: Dr. B.A.Tech.University, 2001
MTech: IIT Bombay, 2003
PhD: IIT Bombay, 2007
Email: sameervd -AT- iitgn.ac.in

Website: https://sameervd.wixsite.com/mysite

Office: 5/403

Work Experience:

  • Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar (Feb 2020 to present)
  • Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar (Nov 2015 to Feb 2020)
  • Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar (Dec 2009 – Nov 2015)
  • Research Scientist, Department of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University (in the City of New York), USA (Jun 2009 – Dec 2009)
  • Post-doctoral Research Associate, New Jersey Center for Engineered Particulates (NJCEP), New Jersey Institute of Technology, NJ, USA (Apr 2007 – May 2009)

Awards:

  • NASI – Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Award for the year 2015 by National Academy of Sciences, India
  • Excellence in Research Award for the year 2012-13 by Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
  • Excellence in Teaching Award for the year 2010-11 by Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
  • Young Engineers Award for the year 2010 by Institution of Engineers (India)
  • Young Researcher Award for year 2004 by Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (IIChE)

Angus McBlane

Philosophy and Cognition

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

Nishaant Choksi

Philosophy and Cognition
Associate Professor
  • BA: University of Chicago, 2004
  • MA: University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 2009
  • PhD: University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 2014
  • Email: nishaant.choksi -AT- iitgn.ac.in

Website : http://www.nishaantchoksi.people.iitgn.ac.in/

Office: 4/333 B
VOIP: 2541

Research Interests
● Semiotics
● Linguistic ethnography
● Script and writing systems
● Language and politics
● Aesthetics of language
● Adivasi societies and history
● Gujarat, Jharkhand/West Bengal border regions

Selected Publications

  1. Graphic Politics in Eastern India: Script and the Quest for Autonomy, Bloomsbury Academic (2021).
  2. Nathan Badenoch and Nishaant Choksi, eds. Expressives in the South Asian Linguistic Area, Brill (2020).
  3. Expressives and the multimodal depiction of social types in Mundari. Language and Society 49(3). (2020).
  4. From language to script: graphic practice and the politics of authority in Santali language media, eastern India. Modern Asian Studies 51(5). (2017).
  5. Surface politics: scaling multiscriptality in an Indian village market. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 25(1): 1-24. (2015).

Work Experience

  • Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (Nov 2024 to present)
  • Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (July 2018 – Nov 2024)
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Kyoto University/Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (2016 – 2018)
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Tokyo University/JSPS (2014 – 2015)

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