Arvind Iyer
I am a graduate student at the University of Southern California,
Los Angeles since Fall 2007.
I am currently in my second semester of
the Masters (MS) program offered by the
Department of Biomedical Engineering and expect to graduate in Spring 2009. Prior to this I obtained my Bachelors degree in Instrumentation Engineering from VESIT, Mumbai, India.
Right now, the best way I can think of to use this space is to start a conversation on Computational Neuroscience
, the focus of much of my current coursework and also my aspiration of
future research.
I
have posted on this website some beginner's questions to trigger
discussion and further
exploration; and perhaps provide pointers for further serious work. If
you are a specialist in neuroscience, it is an honor to have you here
and I will be pleased to know which of these questions you find to be
contemporarily relevant, naively futuristic or belonging to a category
of already resolved issues. If you are a scientist or engineer from
another discipline, then please do share the insights which your
background gives you, and also exercise the healthy skepticism that is
becoming of all such open-ended discussions. If you are a visitor from
outside the confines of engineering and academia, help us challenge our
assumptions, expand our imagination and come up with seemingly obvious
ideas that elude a specialist.
Broad overviews are as welcome as
snippets and tidbits;bold predictions are as welcome as cautionary
notes; and quotations are as welcome as citations. Remarks, clarifications, responses of any sort, and of course,
more
questions are most welcome!
Picasso said, "Computers are useless. They give only answers."
The brain thrills us because it is the source of all
questions mankind will ever ask about itself and the world...and also the source of all answers we can ever find. Click on this picture of one of Picasso's head carvings to explore some heady questions seeking what lies within...
You can email me your responses and suggestions at arvind.iyer@usc.edu . In due time, I will publish the responses in this website in a section devoted for the purpose.
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