Summary
I work part-time at Imperial College London as a mentor for students pursuing Year 13 Further Maths. Please see my portfolio website to learn more about me.
I worked previously as a Research Associate (Postdoc) in the lab of Dr. Tobias Reichenbach at the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London. I worked in Auditory neuroscience and the computational modeling of multisensory speech processing in the Auditory cortex.
Prior to that, I worked with Dr. Romain Brette on understanding the action potential mechanism in Paramecium at the Institut de la Vision in Paris.
I graduated with a PhD in 2017 from UPMC, Paris while working at LPS, ENS, Paris where I researched on propagation of brain waves in the group of Dr. Vincent Hakim and on the Motion After Effect illusion and glial cells in zebrafish in the group of Dr. German Sumbre. I did my masters in Optics, Nanosciences and Condensed Matter Physics at Ecole Polytechnique in Paris and my undergrad major and minor Electrical Engineering and Physics from Indian Institute of Technology Madras.
I am passionate about maths, physics, computational neuroscience and understanding the brain.
My research publications can be found on Orcid, Google Scholar and my Linkedin page can be found at Linkedin. My Github page can be found here: Github and my Twitter page here: Twitter.
I enjoy teaching and have been a Teaching Assistant for the courses of Probability and Statistics, Computational Neuroscience, Reinforcement learning and Brain Machine Interfaces. I am an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
In my free time, I like to do some science dissemination and recently started a Science Blog exploring various new advances in science. Recently, a colleague and I organized a workshop for Imperial Lates on the topic of brain illusions and how they can teach us about the brain. A youtube playlist related to that and some explanations can be found here.
Feel free to send me any email for more information.
Publications
Journals
Elices I, Kulkarni A, Escoubet N, et al. , 2023, An electrophysiological and kinematic model of Paramecium, the "swimming neuron"., Plos Comput Biol, Vol:19
Elices I, Kulkarni A, Escoubet N, et al. , 2022, An electrophysiological and kinematic model of<i>Paramecium</i>, the “swimming neuron”
Kulkarni A, Kegler M, Reichenbach T, 2021, Effect of visual input on syllable parsing in a computational model of a neural microcircuit for speech processing., Journal of Neural Engineering, Vol:5, ISSN:1741-2552, Pages:1-14
Kulkarni A, Ranft J, Hakim V, 2020, Synchronization, stochasticity, and phase waves in neuronal networks with spatially-structured connectivity, Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, Vol:14, ISSN:1662-5188, Pages:1-33