Researcher | Data Scientist | Machine Learning Enthusiast Working at the intersection of Computer Vision, Cognitive Science, and Computational Neuroscience — based in Erlangen, Germany.

Actively exploring new opportunities in data science, machine learning, and AI across industry and academia.

I'm an interdisciplinary researcher with a background spanning physics, informatics, and neuroscience:

• B.Sc. (Hons) Physics — Miranda House, University of Delhi
• M.Sc. Life Science Informatics — University of Bonn

• 🔬 Researcher, Cognitive Computer Vision Lab — FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg (2022–2025)
• 🧠 Data Analyst & Research Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig (2021–2022)
• 📊 Research Scientist, Learning in Early Childhood research group

• 🎙️ Presented "Computer Graphics from a Neuroscientist's Perspective" at the Re-Align Workshop, ICLR 2025 (Singapore)
• 🌍 Selected for M2L Summer School 2025 (Croatia) — one of 300 chosen from 1,700 applicants
• 🛠️ Helper & organizer, VMV 2025, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
• 📝 Reviewer, NeurIPS UniReps 2025
• 🎓 Teaching Assistant, Computational Visual Perception
• 🎖️ DAAD Young Ambassador for 2025–26
• 👏 Reviewer for Deep Learning Indaba Hackathon
• 🧪 Beta Tester at Adaptation Labs

• 🧬 Preprocessing pipelines for multimodal neuroimaging data (EEG–fNIRS, OPM–MEG, EEG–fMRI)
• 🤝 Representational alignment between human and machine cognition
• 🎨 Computer graphics approaches to neuroscience (e.g. face reconstruction with the Basel Face Model)
• 🔬 Deep learning applications in neuroimaging

• Computer Graphics from a Neuroscientist's Perspective — Re-Align Workshop, ICLR 2025
• When Large Language Models are More Persuasive Than Incentivized Humans, and Why — arXiv:2505.09662, 2025
• Processing of Scene Intrinsics in the Ventral Visual Stream for Object Recognition — CogSci 2023
• Perception of Mooney Faces: Extreme Generalization through Inverse Rendering? — CogSci 2023
• A Meta-Analysis of Mental Rotation in the Early Years of Life — Developmental Science, 2023

See the full publication list →

FSL · SPM · MRtrix3 · Nipype · DiPy · Scalismo · Psychopy · DataLad

Note: Jupyter Notebooks contain Python code and analysis

• Extracting the Most Predictive Subgraphs from the Human Connectome — July 2026
• Prosopagnosia: When Faces Refuse to Stick — July 2026
• Visit to M2L Summer School — October 2025
• My Experience at ICLR 2025 — May 2025

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🎥 I love watching action movies and coding in my free time 🎯 Mission: working on impactful problems in ML, neuroscience, and medical imaging 🔭 Also curious about: special relativity, neurodegenerative diseases, gene expression, and predictive coding 💬 Ask me about: Python, Data Science, Machine Learning, Cognitive Science, Bioinformatics

I'm always interested in collaborating on open-source projects and discussing interdisciplinary research!

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