People

Assistant Professor

Email: vishnu[dot]sreekumar[at]iiit[dot]ac[dot]in

Vishnu is a cognitive neuroscientist and directs the MANDA lab at IIIT Hyderabad. He enjoys thinking about human behavior and the brains and environments that enable it, with a special focus on the dynamics of this complex system. Outside of work, he enjoys spending time with his wife and daughter, playing and studying chess, playing tennis, and playing the piano. CV 

PhD Student (Cognitive Science, IIITH)

Pooja is a PhD student at IIIT Hyderabad. She completed a master’s in Cognitive Science from IIT Gandhinagar and spent a year at IIT Kanpur further developing her research skills prior to joining IIITH. She is currently exploring the use of extended-reality techniques to study human memory. Outside of academics she enjoys music, movies, and food.

Research Associate/Lab Manager

A. Biswas is the lab manager and an RA in the lab. He is working on characterizing different types of propagating neural wave patterns in the human brain. He enjoys reading books on politics and history in his spare time.

MS by research (CSE, IIITH)

Pritha joined IIIT Hyderabad as an M.Tech. student but was bitten by the research bug and converted to an MS by research program. She is interested in understanding the interplay between emotion and memory. She enjoys playing badminton, TT, and watching movies during her free time.

BTech/MS dual degree (computational linguistics, IIITH)

Prajneya is a dual degree student, pursuing B. Tech in computer science and a master's in computational linguistics at IIIT, Hyderabad. He is primarily interested in studying the interaction between memory and language and is working on understanding what makes some words more memorable than others. Outside of the lab, Prajneya loves backpacking, singing and jamming in random cafés, and reading books. 

BTech/MS dual degree (ECE, IIITH) 

Brijesh is a research student pursuing a dual-degree in ECE at IIIT Hyderabad. He is interested in understanding the interaction between temporal context and event segmentation during naturalistic experience and how such interactions influence the structure of memories. Outside of the lab, Brijesh loves photography, solo travel, working out, and reading.  

Research Intern

Yashashree is a third-year undergraduate student pursuing a B.E in Information Technology at Pune Institute of Computer Technology. She is interested in studying the interaction between memory and language and is currently working on understanding the use of memory in writing and literature. Outside of work, she likes dancing, singing, painting, and playing chess.

Research Intern

Lekhika is completing an MSc in Neuropsychology at Christ (Deemed-to-be) University. She is interested in human memory and is currently working on characterizing the contents of covert acts of remembering using experience sampling. Outside of work she enjoys reading, writing and doing crosswords.  

BTech (CSE, honours student, IIITH)

Aryamaan is a third-year student at IIIT Hyderabad pursuing BTech in Computer Science and Engineering. His interests lie around, as one would assume, computer science principles and projects in web development. Moreover, he is fascinated with using computer science to research brain neural patterns and processes, especially with regard to spatial cognition. He is currently working on App development to help the lab do research on memory in the real world. His interests, outside of studies, lie in sports (badminton, TT), music (listening and singing), reading ( on mythology, personal development), and current affairs. 

BTech/MS dual degree (computational linguistics, IIITH)

BTech/MS dual degree (CSE, IIITH) 

BTech/MS dual degree (CSE, IIITH) 

BTech/MS dual degree (computational linguistics, IIITH)

BTech (CSE, honours student, IIITH)

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