people

group members


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Mugdha Joshi

Summer Student

I am an undergraduate student at Ashoka University, pursuing Psychology and Biology. I am interested in exploring various aspects of neuroscience and cognitive psychology such as sleep, memory, language, plasticity, neurodegeneration and traumatic brain injury. When not pursuing my academic interests, I enjoy reading, cycling, and music.


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Ashish Anshuman

Software Engineer for MOOSE

Ashish Anshuman is a Software Engineer focussing on web developement for MOOSE.


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Parita Mehta

Community Manager for MOOSE

Parita Mehta, is a doctoral researcher at Warsaw Astronomical Observatory in Poland, she is currently in the final stretch of her Ph.D. in the field of Astrophysics. She is a member of the Scientific organizing committee for the Early Career Astronomers at the European Astronomical Society (EAS) annual meetings, fostering dialogue and engagement on different aspects of academia.

Outside the academic realm, she is equally passionate about community and cultural integration across both India and Poland, which keeps her inspired and grounded. In her free time, she enjoys photography and creative writing.

At CHINTA, she is the community manager for the “Enhancing Interoperability, UI, and Documentation of MOOSE” project in the field of systems biology and neuroscience.


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Subhasis Ray

Principal Investigator

I work as an associate professor at TCG CREST, Kolkata, India. My undergraduate training was in Computer Science and Engineering, and later I moved on to study Computational Neuroscience at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), TIFR, Bangalore, for my PhD. There I worked on computational modeling of biological neural networks, developing a simulator for biology research, and developing data and model description formats.

I did my postdoctoral research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda. I learnt electrophysiology, microscopy, and other techniques and carried out animal experiments to study the sense of smell. I combined computational modeling with experiments to answer fundamental questions in neural information processing.

I am primarily interested in biological intelligence, though I utilize artificial intelligence as a useful tool. I also develop software to facilitate research.

Photo: Mark Stopfer