Research
Graduate Student Researcher at Mind Body Emotion Group, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
(Nov ‘21 - Present)
Graduate Student Researcher at Social Cognition Group, Laboratory of Cognitive and Computational Neurosciences, ENS PSL - Paris
(Feb ’21 - Aug ‘21)
Research Assistant at Neurocomputing Lab and Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi
(Sept ‘19 - Mar ‘20)
Visiting Student Researcher at Fluid Interfaces, Senior Thesis - MIT Media Lab
(Aug ‘18 - Jan ‘19)
First Research Intern and Project Lead at the Augmented and Virtual Reality Startup - HoloSuit
(Aug, Dec ‘17, June - July ‘18)
Undergraduate Research Assistant at Multimedia and HCI Laboratory - BITS Pilani
(Jan - May ’18)
Summer Research Intern at Cocoon Cam - Wearless Tech Inc
(Jul - Aug‘17)
Publications
Abhay Koushik, Judith Amores, Pattie Maes. Real-time Smartphone-based Sleep Staging using 1-Channel EEG. IEEE-EMBS 16th International Conference on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks. IEEE EMBS BSN 2019
Abhay Koushik, Judith Amores, Pattie Maes. Real-Time Sleep Staging using Deep Learning on Smartphone for a Wearable EEG. Machine Learning for Health (ML4H) Workshop, 32nd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. NeurIPS 2018.
Courses outside Major
AIRE Master in Life Sciences, CRI Paris, France (Current)
Bachelor of Engineering (Hons.) Computer Science, BITS Pilani, India
ENS - COGSCI 313 NeuroEconomics - CogMaster course by Dr. Stefano Palminteri, Fall 2021
MIT - 20.352/MAS.881 Principles of Neuro-Engineering by Prof. Ed Boyden, Fall 2018
IIT - ELL784 and ELL888 Advanced Machine Learning by Prof. Prathosh A P, Fall 2019 and Spring 2020
IIT - COL786 Advanced Functional Brain Imaging by Prof. Rahul Garg, Spring 2020
MOOCs Neural Networks for Machine Learning by Prof. Geoffrey Hinton, Deep Learning specialization by Stanford University
Fellowships and Awards
Charpak Master Full Scholarship - 2020-22 (twice) (700 EUR - monthly, complete tuition-waiver)
- Awarded by the French Embassy in India for 2020-21 and successively renewed (among top scholars) for 2021-22.
iGEM Best Manufacturing Project and Gold Medalist - 2021
- Paris Bettencourt Team Member with Dry Lab and Marketing Communications. (part-time)
Best Hack using the OpenAI API at TreeHacks: A 36-hour hackathon at Stanford University - 2021
- Developed machine-generated biodiversity and sustainability comics using GPT3.
Global Community BioSummit Fellow: One of the 36 Leadership fellows from across 24 countries - 2020
- Trained under Abel Cano and Prof. Marshall Ganz from Harvard Kennedy School.
Participant in the Takeda Superminds Fellows Program with MIT Center for Collective Intelligence - 2019
- One of the MIT Supermind contributors in the project tackling adult depression in Japan.
National Science Foundation (NSF) Student Travel Award, Chicago - 2019 (1K USD)
- Invited for Oral Presentation at the IEEE Body Sensor Networks Conference.
KaayaTech Inc - HoloSuit Scholarship for my Senior Thesis (12K USD)
- For full-time research on Brain-Computer-Interfaces as a visiting student at MIT, USA.
Best Hardware Hack Award at HackHarvard, invited by Harvard University - 2018
- Developed proof of concept wearable device for silent speech in healthcare units
Excellence medal and Scholarship by FIITJEE Bangalore - 2015 (10K INR)
- In Top 0.5 percent of IIT JEE Advance exam where only top 2 percent out of 1.1 million students clear.
Selected for the Indian National Chemistry Olympiad. Awarded by IAPT and ACT - 2014
- In Top 1 percent, where only top 10 percent of 33,000 students cleared the examination
Award of Academic Excellence. Awarded by Acharya Vidya Kula - 2013
- Valedictorian of the school and city rank 2
INVITED TALKS
Asia Pacific Panel on Community Life-Sciences Movement - Neuroscience and Mental Health awareness - Global BioSummit 2020
Communicating Science Panel - Changing nature of Science communication - Global BioSummit 2020
Guardianship of the Ecosystem Panel
Using Makerspaces to actively create awareness on biodiversity conservation - Global BioSummit 2020
Protecting Our Earth - A global perspective - Global BioSumit 2019
Workshop presentation - BioMuse: Developing a BCI for Audio-Neural feedback and Trance Music - Global BioSummit 2018
Leadership AND ARTS
Co-Founder, Srishtaara - BITS Pilani - 2019
Founded an interdisciplinary institute-funded student-run Makerspace for all the hackers and makers alike by providing them with prototyping tools and medium for materializing their creative innovations.
Core Member, Organizing Team, Global Community BioSummit, MIT Media Lab - 2018, 19, 20, 21
International Summit and Community-Bio Movement to fundamentally transform life sciences for the welfare of the global community by empowering local solutions, founded by Dr. David Kong.
Core Member, Department of Publications and Correspondence, BITS Pilani
A student department responsible for managing and inviting students and participants from different parts of India for the National intercollegiate Cultural and Sports festivals, Oasis and BOSM for the years - 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018.
Cultural Head of Kannada Regional Association, BITS Pilani
Responsible for conducting cultural events and managing a student body of 30 members.
Peforming Artist - Flutist and Dancer
Composed and Choreographed for the semesterly productions as the member of Ragamalika - the Indian Classical Opera and the Dance Club, BITS Pilani.