Sourish Chakravarty, Ph.D.

Post-doctoral Fellow

I am a multi-disciplinary engineer solving biomedical engineering research problems in general anesthesia and in neurological disorders. For my ongoing neuroengineering postdoctoral research at MIT (mentor: Dr. Emery Brown), I am developing novel closed-loop anesthesia delivery systems and validating them in non-human primates. I am also developing novel state space model-based computational tools to analyze dynamic functional connectivity in multimodal functional brain-imaging data from patients with disorders of consciousness (mentors: Dr. Emery Brown and Dr. Brian Edlow). Prior to my postdoc, as part of my Mechanical Engineering PhD research at SUNY Buffalo, I developed novel physics-based computational models to analyze noisy mechanical response in large-scale solid structures with randomness in small-scale material properties. As an undergraduate student researcher at IIT-Kharagpur, I had developed a keen interest in heuristic optimization and in microfluidics. Outside of my scientific research pursuits, I enjoy participating in team-activities such as theatre, dancing, teaching, and organizing career events for early career academicians.