Koel Das

Associate Professor
Dept: Mathematics and Statistics (DMS), Biological Sciences (DBS)
E-mail: koel.das [at] iiserkol.ac.in
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Research Interest:
Biological and Machine Learning, Computational Neuroscience, Visual Perception, Feature Extraction and Pattern Classification,Brain-Computer Interface.
Academic Background:
- Ph.D. (Electrical and Computer Engg), Irvine (University of California), 2007
Positions:
- Associate Professor, IISER Kolkata (current)
- Assistant Professor, South Asian University (2011 - 2011)
- Post Doctoral Scholar, University of California, Santa Barbara (2008 - 2010)
Awards and Honors:
- Ramalingaswami Fellowship from DBT, India (2011)
- Emulex/Cal(IT)2 fellowship from Emulex (2006)
- Phi Beta Kappa international student scholarship award from UC Irvine (2006)
- Engineering Merit Scholarship from Guahati University (1995)
- National Merit Scholar from WBBSE (1993)
Selected Publications:
- Preston, T J; Guo, F; Das, K; Geisbrecht, B and Eckstein, M P. 2013."Neural representations of contextual guidance in visual search of real world scenes." Journal of Neuroscience, 33, 7846-7855
- Guo, F; Preston, T J; Das, K; Geisbrecht, B and Eckstein, M P. 2012."Feature-Independent Neural Coding of Target Detection during Search of Natural Scenes." Journal of Neuroscience, 32, 9499-9510
- Eckstein, M P.; Das, K; Pham, B. T.; Peterson, M. F.; Abbey, C. K.; Sy, J. L. and Geisbrecht, B.. 2012."Neural decoding of collective wisdom with multi-brain computing." Neuroimage, 59, 94-108
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