Biography:Pavan Ramdya

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Short description: US-American neuroscientist
Professor

Pavan P. Ramdya
EPFL Pavan Ramdya.jpg
Pavan Ramdya in 2016
Born1979 (age 44–45)
New York City
CitizenshipUnited States
Academic background
EducationNeuroscience
Alma materDrew University
Harvard University
Doctoral advisorFlorian Engert
Other academic advisorsRichard Benton
Dario Floreano
Michael Dickinson
Academic work
DisciplineNeuroscience
Sub-disciplineNeuroengineering
InstitutionsÉcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Main interestsNeuroscience
Neuroengineering
Robotics
Synthetic neurobiology
Websitehttps://ramdya-lab.epfl.ch

Pavan Ramdya (born 1979) is an American neuroscientist and bioengineer. His research centers on understanding the neuromechanical control of behavior and its application to robotics and artificial intelligence in neurosciences. He holds the Firmenich Next Generation Chair in neuroscience and bioengineering at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), and is head of the Neuroengineering Laboratory at EPFL's School of Life Sciences.[1][2][3]

Career

Ramdya studied neuroscience first at Drew University, where he received his bachelor's degree with honors (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) in 2001.[4] He continued his studies at Harvard University and in 2009 received a PhD for his work in the group of Florian Engert.[5][6] He then went on to perform postdoctoral work in neurogenetics and robotics in the laboratories of Richard Benton at University of Lausanne (UNIL) and Dario Floreano at EPFL, respectively. There he studied locomotor control and collective behavior in Drosophila melanogaster.[7][8][9] In 2015, he moved to the California Institute of Technology to work as a visiting postdoctoral fellow with Michael Dickinson where he developed a means for imaging motor circuit activity in behaving Drosophila.[10][11]

Since 2017 he has been an assistant professor for neuroscience at EPFL, and head of the Neuroengineering Laboratory located at both the Brain Mind Institute and at the Institute of Bioengineering of EPFL's School of Life Sciences.[1][2][3][12]

Research

Ramdya's research is focused on reverse-engineering biological neuromechanical control to inspire the development of artificial systems that can mimic the flexibility and agility of animal behaviors. Specifically, he studies limb-dependent behaviors in Drosophila melanogaster, employing an interdisciplinary approach which draws on genetic manipulations, neural and behavioral recordings, and physics-based neural network models and simulations.[10][12][13][14][15][16][excessive citations]

His research was featured in National Geographic,[17] IEEE Spectrum,[18] Nature,[19] Quanta Magazine,[20] and Le Monde.[21]

Distinctions

He is a member of the FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence.[22] He has been the recipient of HFSP Long-term and Career Development Awards,[23] and the UNIL Biology and Medicine, Young Investigator Award in Basic Science.[3] In 2019, he was granted the SNSF Eccellenza Grant.[24]

Selected works

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Brexit: closer cooperation with the UK cannot replace participation in Horizon 2020 | ETH-Board". https://www.ethrat.ch/en/medien-medienmitteilungen/brexit-engere-zusammenarbeit-mit-grossbritannien-kann-teilnahme-horizon-2020-nicht-ersetzen. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Neuroengineering Laboratory ‐ EPFL" (in en-GB). https://www.epfl.ch/labs/ramdya-lab/. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Keynote speakers". 2020-07-30. https://www.fens.org/Documents/PDF%20files/CAJAL/2020/NCBCB/NCBCB%20Speakers-2.pdf. 
  4. ↑ "Curriculum vitae - Pavan Ramdya". 2019-02-16. https://www.epfl.ch/labs/ramdya-lab/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Ramdya_CV.pdf. 
  5. ↑ "Alumni" (in en). https://www.engertlab.org/alumni. 
  6. ↑ Ramdya, Pavan; Engert, Florian (2008-08-10). "Emergence of binocular functional properties in a monocular neural circuit" (in en). Nature Neuroscience 11 (9): 1083–1090. doi:10.1038/nn.2166. ISSN 1097-6256. PMID 19160507. 
  7. ↑ Ramdya, Pavan; Lichocki, Pawel; Cruchet, Steeve; Frisch, Lukas; Tse, Winnie; Floreano, Dario; Benton, Richard (2014-12-24). "Mechanosensory interactions drive collective behaviour in Drosophila" (in en). Nature 519 (7542): 233–236. doi:10.1038/nature14024. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 25533959. 
  8. ↑ Ramdya, Pavan; Thandiackal, Robin; Cherney, Raphael; Asselborn, Thibault; Benton, Richard; Ijspeert, Auke Jan; Floreano, Dario (2017-03-17). "Climbing favours the tripod gait over alternative faster insect gaits" (in en). Nature Communications 8 (1): 14494. doi:10.1038/ncomms14494. ISSN 2041-1723. PMID 28211509. Bibcode: 2017NatCo...814494R. 
  9. ↑ Maesani, Andrea; Ramdya, Pavan; Cruchet, Steeve; Gustafson, Kyle; Benton, Richard; Floreano, Dario (2015-11-23). Faisal, Aldo A. ed. "Fluctuation-Driven Neural Dynamics Reproduce Drosophila Locomotor Patterns" (in en). PLOS Computational Biology 11 (11): e1004577. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004577. ISSN 1553-7358. PMID 26600381. Bibcode: 2015PLSCB..11E4577M. 
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Chen, Chin-Lin; Hermans, Laura; Viswanathan, Meera C.; Fortun, Denis; Aymanns, Florian; Unser, Michael; Cammarato, Anthony; Dickinson, Michael H. et al. (2018-10-22). "Imaging neural activity in the ventral nerve cord of behaving adult Drosophila" (in en). Nature Communications 9 (1): 4390. doi:10.1038/s41467-018-06857-z. ISSN 2041-1723. PMID 30348941. Bibcode: 2018NatCo...9.4390C. 
  11. ↑ "PEOPLE | Dickinson Lab". https://dickinsonlab.caltech.edu/people/. 
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Günel, Semih; Rhodin, Helge; Morales, Daniel; Campagnolo, João; Ramdya, Pavan; Fua, Pascal (2019-10-04). O'Leary, Timothy; Calabrese, Ronald L; Shaevitz, Josh W. eds. "DeepFly3D, a deep learning-based approach for 3D limb and appendage tracking in tethered, adult Drosophila". eLife 8: e48571. doi:10.7554/eLife.48571. ISSN 2050-084X. PMID 31584428. 
  13. ↑ Ramdya, Pavan; Thandiackal, Robin; Cherney, Raphael; Asselborn, Thibault; Benton, Richard; Ijspeert, Auke Jan; Floreano, Dario (2017-02-17). "Climbing favours the tripod gait over alternative faster insect gaits" (in en). Nature Communications 8 (1): 14494. doi:10.1038/ncomms14494. ISSN 2041-1723. PMID 28211509. Bibcode: 2017NatCo...814494R. 
  14. ↑ Uhlmann, Virginie; Ramdya, Pavan; Delgado-Gonzalo, Ricard; Benton, Richard; Unser, Michael (2017-04-28). "FlyLimbTracker: An active contour based approach for leg segment tracking in unmarked, freely behaving Drosophila" (in en). PLOS ONE 12 (4): e0173433. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0173433. ISSN 1932-6203. PMID 28453566. Bibcode: 2017PLoSO..1273433U. 
  15. ↑ Ramdya, Pavan; Lichocki, Pawel; Cruchet, Steeve; Frisch, Lukas; Tse, Winnie; Floreano, Dario; Benton, Richard (2014-12-24). "Mechanosensory interactions drive collective behaviour in Drosophila" (in en). Nature 519 (7542): 233–236. doi:10.1038/nature14024. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 25533959. Bibcode: 2015Natur.519..233R. 
  16. ↑ Gosztolai, Adam; Günel, Semih; Abrate, Marco Pietro; Morales, Daniel; Ríos, Victor Lobato; Rhodin, Helge; Fua, Pascal; Ramdya, Pavan (2020-09-20). "LiftPose3D, a deep learning-based approach for transforming 2D to 3D pose in laboratory animals" (in en). bioRxiv: 2020.09.18.292680. doi:10.1101/2020.09.18.292680. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.18.292680v1. 
  17. ↑ Yong, Ed (2014-12-24). "The Wisdom of the Fly Crowds". https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2014/12/24/the-wisdom-of-the-fly-crowds/. 
  18. ↑ "Six-Legged Robot One-Ups Nature With Faster Gait" (in en). 21 February 2017. https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/six-legged-robot-oneups-nature-with-faster-gait. 
  19. ↑ Kwok, Roberta (2019-09-30). "Deep learning powers a motion-tracking revolution" (in en). Nature 574 (7776): 137–138. doi:10.1038/d41586-019-02942-5. PMID 31570871. Bibcode: 2019Natur.574..137K. 
  20. ↑ Cepelewicz, Jordana (10 December 2019). "To Decode the Brain, Scientists Automate the Study of Behavior" (in en). https://www.quantamagazine.org/to-decode-the-brain-scientists-automate-the-study-of-behavior-20191210/. 
  21. ↑ "Ce robot à six pattes a trouvé une façon plus rapide de se déplacer que les insectes" (in fr). Le Monde.fr. 2017-02-23. https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2017/02/23/ce-robot-a-six-pattes-a-trouve-une-facon-plus-rapide-de-se-deplacer-que-les-insectes_5084306_4408996.html. 
  22. ↑ "PAVAN RAMDYA – FKNE" (in en-GB). https://fenskavlinetwork.org/portfolio/pavan-ramdya/. 
  23. ↑ "Awards | Human Frontier Science Program". https://www.hfsp.org/awardees/awards. 
  24. ↑ "Eccellenza: List of awardees (2019)". 2019-12-17. http://www.snf.ch/SiteCollectionDocuments/Eccellenza_Liste_Beitragsempfangende_e.pdf. 

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