Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (Amrita University)
Amrita Mind Brain Center
Shyam Diwakar is the Director of the Amrita Mind Brain Center, a Faculty fellow at the Amrita Center for International Programs and a Professor at the Department of Electronics and Communication, Amrita School of Engineering, Amritapuri campus. He is the Institute Integration Coordinator and Co-investigator of VALUE (Virtual and Accessible Laboratories for Universalizing Education); a major virtual labs initiative supported by Sakshat mission of MHRD, Government of India, and Principal Investigator of few other projects funded by Department of Science and Technology.
He was awarded the Young Faculty Research Fellowship under the Sir Visvesvaraya PhD scheme by Department of Electronics and Information Technology, Govt. of India in April 2016.
He holds a Ph. D. in Computational Sciences from University of Milan, Italy and has worked on as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Physiology, University of Pavia, Italy. His postdoctoral research was supported by INGENIO grant from Regione Lombardia and SENSOPAC grant from EU framework 7.
Before his doctoral studies, he worked as a Research Assistant at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, on Machine Learning and Intelligence for two years. He has co-authored a book titled “Insights into Data Mining” which has been published by Prentice Hall, PHI, December 2005 and another book on Computational Neuroscience.
He is a Senior Member of IEEE, Faculty Member of Organization for Computational Neurosciences (OCNS) and Life Member of Indian Academy of Neuroscience. He has organized, participated and presented in various meetings and workshops around Europe and Asia and has also served as an invited speaker in conferences and graduate schools in Europe and India.
Dr. Diwakar was awarded the NVIDIA Innovation award on December 16, 2015 for his computational neuroscience work on GPUs. He also coordinates the NVIDIA GPU research center and NVIDIA GPU teaching Center at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.
Dr. Diwakar’s research uses principles from Electrical Engineering and Informatics to study cerebellum and its functioning. The current work at his lab is on EEG studies, Computational Neurophysiology, Neuromorphic Hardware and Bio-Robotics besides pedagogical techniques for enhancing University laboratory education through ICT.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
Center for Computational Engineering and Networking
Worked on machine learning and computational modeling with Dr. K. P. Soman.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
February 2009
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June 2015
School of Biotechnology
Research, Teaching, International relations.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
July 2015
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December 2020
Amrita School of Biotechnology
Currently am an associate professor at the School of Biotechnology, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham and a faculty fellow at the Amrita Center for International Programs.
