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A multidisciplinary group across neuroscience, engineering, mathematics, and AI, and growing.
Principal Investigator
Principal Investigator · Assistant Professor
Mehta Family School of Biosciences & Biomedical Engineering, IIT Indore
Biomedical signal processing, neurotechnology, and machine learning: EEG/SEEG/MEG, seizure characterisation, affective computing, and brain-network analysis. Previously a postdoctoral fellow at Cleveland Clinic Epilepsy Center, USA and, during his PhD, a DAAD Bi-National Guided Research Fellow and guest scientist at University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Germany. Integrated B.Tech–M.Tech in Biomedical Engineering, IIIT Allahabad; PhD, IIT Madras.
On the road
Dr. Kumar at Cleveland Clinic during his postdoctoral fellowship at the Neurological Institute.
Neurological Institute, Cleveland Clinic · Cleveland, USA
Dr. Kumar at the ASSFN Biennial Meeting, joining neurosurgeons and engineers working on stereotactic and functional neurosurgery.
ASSFN Biennial Meeting · Cleveland, 2026
Dr. Kumar presenting unsupervised, contrastive learning of seizure-onset patterns from stereo-EEG.
American Epilepsy Society (AES) 2025 · Atlanta
Dr. Kumar at the American Epilepsy Society Annual Meeting, sharing seizure-network research with clinicians and scientists.
AES Annual Meeting · Atlanta, 2025
Dr. Kumar receiving his PhD from IIT Madras at the institute's 61st Convocation.
PhD convocation, IIT Madras · Chennai, 2024
Dr. Kumar presenting his doctoral research to the biomedical engineering community.
IEEE EMBC 2022 · Glasgow, UK
Dr. Kumar at IEEE EMBC, the annual conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society.
IEEE EMBC 2022 · Glasgow, UK
Dr. Kumar giving a talk on time- and frequency-domain analysis of surface EMG during APB muscle abduction.
IEEE MeMeA 2022 · Taormina, Italy
Dr. Kumar with colleagues at Medical Informatics Europe, Europe's flagship digital-health conference.
MIE 2022 · Nice, France
Dr. Kumar at the annual conference of the German Society for Biomedical Engineering (DGBMT).
BMT 2021 · Hannover, Germany
Dr. Kumar on a visit to Technische Universität Braunschweig.
TU Braunschweig · Germany, 2021
Openings
Positions are advertised honestly as they open. See how to apply on the Join page.
Fully engaged doctoral research in neural signal processing, epilepsy, or AI for neuroscience.
Thesis projects on EEG/MEG analysis, brain networks, or interpretable machine learning.
Project and internship roles for curious students across engineering and brain health.
