Pavan Ramdya Explained

Honorific Prefix:Professor
Pavan Ramdya
Birth Place:New York City
Citizenship:United States
Switzerland
Website:https://www.epfl.ch/labs/ramdya-lab/
Education:Neuroscience
Alma Mater:Drew University
Harvard University
Doctoral Advisor:Florian Engert
Academic Advisors:Richard Benton
Dario Floreano
Michael Dickinson
Discipline:Neuroscience
Sub Discipline:Neuroengineering
Workplaces:École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Main Interests:Neuroscience
Neuroengineering
Robotics
Synthetic neurobiology

Pavan Ramdya (born 1979) is an American and Swiss neuroscientist and bioengineer. His research centers on understanding the cognitive and neuromechanical control of behavior toward applications in robotics and artificial intelligence. He holds the Firmenich Next Generation Chair in neuroscience and bioengineering at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), and is head of the Neuroengineering Laboratory at EPFL's School of Life Sciences.[1] [2] [3]

Career

Ramdya studied neuroscience at Drew University, where he received his bachelor's degree with honors (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) in 2001.[4] He continued his studies at Harvard University and in 2009 received a PhD for his work in the group of Florian Engert.[5] [6] He then went on to perform postdoctoral work in neurogenetics and robotics in the laboratories of Richard Benton at University of Lausanne (UNIL) and Dario Floreano at EPFL, respectively. There he studied locomotor control and collective behavior in Drosophila melanogaster.[7] [8] [9] In 2015, he moved to the California Institute of Technology to work as a visiting postdoctoral fellow with Michael Dickinson where he developed a means for imaging motor circuit activity in behaving Drosophila.[10] [11]

Since 2017 he has been a professor of neuroscience and bioengineering at EPFL, and head of the Neuroengineering Laboratory located in both the Brain Mind Institute and at the Institute of Bioengineering in EPFL's School of Life Sciences.[12]

Research

Ramdya's research is focused on reverse-engineering biological neuromechanical control to inspire the development of artificial systems that can mimic the flexibility and agility of animal behaviors. Specifically, he studies limb-dependent behaviors in the adult fly, Drosophila melanogaster, employing an interdisciplinary approach which draws on genetic manipulations, neural and behavioral recordings, physics simulations and artificial neural networks.[13] [14] [15] [16]

His research has been featured in National Geographic,[17] IEEE Spectrum,[18] Nature,[19] Quanta Magazine,[20] and Le Monde.[21]

Distinctions

He is a member of the FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence.[22] He has been the recipient of HFSP Long-term and Career Development Awards,[23] as well as the UNIL Biology and Medicine, Young Investigator Award in Basic Science. In 2019, he was awarded an SNSF Eccellenza Grant.[24]

Selected works

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Brexit: closer cooperation with the UK cannot replace participation in Horizon 2020 ETH-Board. 2020-10-09. www.ethrat.ch.
  2. Web site: Neuroengineering Laboratory - EPFL. 2020-10-09. www.epfl.ch. en-GB.
  3. Web site: July 30, 2020. Keynote speakers. 2020-10-13. Federation of European Neuroscience Societies.
  4. Web site: February 16, 2019. Curriculum vitae – Pavan Ramdya.
  5. Web site: Alumni. 2020-10-09. Engert Lab. en.
  6. Ramdya. Pavan. Engert. Florian. August 10, 2008. Emergence of binocular functional properties in a monocular neural circuit. Nature Neuroscience. en. 11. 9. 1083–1090. 10.1038/nn.2166. 1097-6256. 2958220. 19160507.
  7. Ramdya. Pavan. Lichocki. Pawel. Cruchet. Steeve. Frisch. Lukas. Tse. Winnie. Floreano. Dario. Benton. Richard. December 24, 2014. Mechanosensory interactions drive collective behaviour in Drosophila. Nature. en. 519. 7542. 233–236. 10.1038/nature14024. 0028-0836. 4359906. 25533959. 2015Natur.519..233R .
  8. Ramdya. Pavan. Thandiackal. Robin. Cherney. Raphael. Asselborn. Thibault. Benton. Richard. Ijspeert. Auke Jan. Floreano. Dario. March 17, 2017. Climbing favours the tripod gait over alternative faster insect gaits. Nature Communications. en. 8. 1. 14494. 10.1038/ncomms14494. 2041-1723. 5321742. 28211509. 2017NatCo...814494R.
  9. Maesani. Andrea. Ramdya. Pavan. Cruchet. Steeve. Gustafson. Kyle. Benton. Richard. Floreano. Dario. November 23, 2015. Faisal. Aldo A. Fluctuation-Driven Neural Dynamics Reproduce Drosophila Locomotor Patterns. PLOS Computational Biology. en. 11. 11. e1004577. 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004577. 1553-7358. 4657918. 26600381. 2015PLSCB..11E4577M . free .
  10. Chen. Chin-Lin. Hermans. Laura. Viswanathan. Meera C.. Fortun. Denis. Aymanns. Florian. Unser. Michael. Cammarato. Anthony. Dickinson. Michael H.. Ramdya. Pavan. October 22, 2018. Imaging neural activity in the ventral nerve cord of behaving adult Drosophila. Nature Communications. en. 9. 1. 4390. 10.1038/s41467-018-06857-z. 2041-1723. 6197219. 30348941. 2018NatCo...9.4390C.
  11. Web site: PEOPLE Dickinson Lab. 2020-10-09. dickinsonlab.caltech.edu.
  12. Günel. Semih. Rhodin. Helge. Morales. Daniel. Campagnolo. João. Ramdya. Pavan. Fua. Pascal. October 4, 2019. O'Leary. Timothy. Calabrese. Ronald L. Shaevitz. Josh W. DeepFly3D, a deep learning-based approach for 3D limb and appendage tracking in tethered, adult Drosophila. eLife. 8. e48571. 10.7554/eLife.48571. 31584428. 6828327. 2050-084X . free .
  13. Ramdya. Pavan. Thandiackal. Robin. Cherney. Raphael. Asselborn. Thibault. Benton. Richard. Ijspeert. Auke Jan. Floreano. Dario. February 17, 2017. Climbing favours the tripod gait over alternative faster insect gaits. Nature Communications. en. 8. 1. 14494. 10.1038/ncomms14494. 2041-1723. 5321742. 28211509. 2017NatCo...814494R.
  14. Uhlmann. Virginie. Ramdya. Pavan. Delgado-Gonzalo. Ricard. Benton. Richard. Unser. Michael. April 28, 2017. FlyLimbTracker: An active contour based approach for leg segment tracking in unmarked, freely behaving Drosophila. PLOS ONE. en. 12. 4. e0173433. 10.1371/journal.pone.0173433. 1932-6203. 5409058. 28453566. 2017PLoSO..1273433U. free.
  15. Ramdya. Pavan. Lichocki. Pawel. Cruchet. Steeve. Frisch. Lukas. Tse. Winnie. Floreano. Dario. Benton. Richard. December 24, 2014. Mechanosensory interactions drive collective behaviour in Drosophila. Nature. en. 519. 7542. 233–236. 2015Natur.519..233R. 10.1038/nature14024. 1476-4687. 4359906. 25533959.
  16. Gosztolai. Adam. Günel. Semih. Abrate. Marco Pietro. Morales. Daniel. Ríos. Victor Lobato. Rhodin. Helge. Fua. Pascal. Ramdya. Pavan. September 20, 2020. LiftPose3D, a deep learning-based approach for transforming 2D to 3D pose in laboratory animals. bioRxiv. en. 2020.09.18.292680. 10.1101/2020.09.18.292680. 221882266.
  17. Web site: Yong. Ed. December 24, 2014. The Wisdom of the Fly Crowds. https://web.archive.org/web/20200724215255/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2014/12/24/the-wisdom-of-the-fly-crowds/. dead. July 24, 2020. 2020-10-12. National Geographic.
  18. Web site: Six-Legged Robot One-Ups Nature With Faster Gait. 2020-10-12. IEEE Spectrum: Technology, Engineering, and Science News. February 21, 2017. en.
  19. Kwok. Roberta. September 30, 2019. Deep learning powers a motion-tracking revolution. Nature. en. 574. 7776. 137–138. 10.1038/d41586-019-02942-5. 31570871. 2019Natur.574..137K. 203592858. free.
  20. Web site: Cepelewicz. Jordana. To Decode the Brain, Scientists Automate the Study of Behavior. 2020-10-12. Quanta Magazine. December 10, 2019. en.
  21. News: February 23, 2017. Ce robot à six pattes a trouvé une façon plus rapide de se déplacer que les insectes. fr. Le Monde.fr. 2020-10-12.
  22. Web site: PAVAN RAMDYA – FKNE. 2020-10-12. en-GB.
  23. Web site: Awards Human Frontier Science Program. 2020-10-13. www.hfsp.org.
  24. Web site: December 17, 2019. Eccellenza: List of awardees (2019). 2020-10-12.

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