Chandan Behera, PhD

I'm currently a Postdoctoral Associate at Dr. George Dragoi's lab, Dept. of Psychiatry, Yale University, US. My current research is focused on analyzing the neurophysiological and behavioural data of freely moving rodents to understand neuronal ensemble mechanisms underlying internal representation of space and memory. My areas of interests are computational modelling, signal processing and machine learning applications of biological systems. Before joining Dr. Dragoi's lab I worked as a postdoctoral research associate at Intelligent Systems Research Centre, Ulster University, UK. I did my PhD in Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience, at University of Ulster, UK in collaboration with University of Oxford, UK. I worked on biologically inspired computational modeling of Serotonergic systems for emotion learning in my PhD project. I did my Masters at Indian Institute of Technology, India, where I did my research works in the areas of understanding the cognitive basis of sleep, using advanced signal processing and machine learning techniques on polysomnographic data.