Jai Bhagat
jkbhagatio [at] gmail [dot] com
Hi, I'm Jai, aka jkbhagatio. Welcome to my personal site!
Generally, I'm interested in how stuff works, and how we can can best learn how stuff works.
My research focuses on understanding and creating intelligent systems^ -- systems that make use of complex environments to achieve varied goals. Using animal nervous systems and artificial neural networks as models, I create and test theories that explain intelligent behavior as a function of processes that propagate information within these models^^. To aid this research, I also develop software, hardware and experiment protocols to improve the collection and analysis of relevant data.
Since completing my Bachelor's Degree in Neuroscience at Boston University, I've held roles as a Technical Associate, Software Developer, and Data Scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University College London, and the International Brain Lab. In these roles, I've created and optimized various hardware, software, and machine learning (unsupervised, reinforcement, and deep, including gen ai) tools, and have contributed to many exciting, world-class, collaborative research projects in the fields of Systems Neuroscience, Computational Neuroscience, and Neuroengineering.
Now, as a Ph. D. student in the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre at University College London, I'm establishing a hardware and software platform for running continuous, months-long behavioral and neural recordings of rodents in naturalistic environments. Using this platform, I am acquiring experimental data and working on novel analysis and modeling approaches to determine the neural underpinnings of complex social behavior.
