Invited Talks by Young Researchers
Dr. Apurva Ratan Murty
Postdoctoral Student at MIT, USADr. Apurva Ratan Mutry is a Postdoctoral Researcher McGovern Institute for Brain Research, MIT, Cambridge, USA with Nancy Kanwisher and Jim DiCarlo. He is broadly interested in understanding the neural basis of visual object recognition in the ventral visual cortex in humans and non-human primates. He obtained his PhD from the Centre for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore – India, where he was advised by S.P. Arun. Over the course of his research at IISc, he investigated the dynamics of invariant object representations and the computations by which information about object identity and image attributes combine in the macaque inferior temporal cortex.
Dr. Komal Saxena
Researcher, Agra, INDr. Komal Saxena has received her doctorate from Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India. She was joint doctoral student between DEI and National Institute of Material Science, Japan. Her main research focuses on microwave device designing, characterization, imaging of biomolecules, metamaterial, and time crystal.
She received the Best Volunteer Award for Digital Financial Literacy Campaign – Vittiya Saksharta Abhiyan organized by Govt. of India, in 2017. Along with these, she worked as a research associate in Virtual lab project at Microwave Physics Laboratory, DEI in 2015 and joined there as a guest researcher in 2018. She completed a three month sponsored Internship Program at NIMS, Japan in 2017, where she was also invited as a Guest Researcher (sponsored) in 2018. Over the tenure, Dr. Saxena has delivered many presentations at national and international conferences including invited talks. She has published widely as being author, co-author of journals, conference proceedings, and 2 book chapters.
Dr. Aarat Kalra
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Princeton University, USADr Aarat Kalra is working to understand the relevance of quantum effects in biological systems. His experience has been strongly multidisciplinary, ranging from performing in vitro fluorescence assays to measuring the pH surrounding biological nanowires (microtubules). His Ph.D. work involved determining the bioelectrical potential of the cytoskeleton using techniques from both physics (photoluminescence spectroscopy and impedance measurements) and biology (fluorescence-microscopy based methods). He has extensive experience in dealing with microtubules, microtubule associated proteins and fluorophores, and with associated drugs. He enjoys doing experiments in the lab, anything on the interface of biology and physical chemistry, MATLAB coding and writing papers.