Varun Machhale Kumar
Applying machine learning to neuroscience, ranging from clinical applications to understanding neural circuits. Current work builds end-to-end software pipelines for high-density Neuropixels recordings, and investigates how theta oscillations support memory encoding in mouse models, and replicates these mechanisms in artificial neural networks using predictive coding.
Prior work covered epileptic seizure classification from interictal EEG (journal, patent) and medical image segmentation (bladder, cardiac) pipelines. In a previous life, worked with electronics, capacitors, inductors, resistors, transistors and robotics.
Impaired behavioral inhibition in Fmr1 KO mice is linked to disrupted visual cortex theta oscillations
Zimmerman, Yin, Cragg, Nareddula, Kumar V. M. et al. -- Cell Reports, accepted May 2026. Co-authored during my graduate research at the Chubykin Lab at Purdue, working with Neuropixels recordings from wild-type and Fragile X model mice.
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