Ajay Maddirala, Ph.D.

Ajay has been working as a postdoctoral associate at Pan lab, since April 18th, 2023. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in the year 2017 from Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG), India. Under the supervision of Prof. Shaik Rafi Ahamed, Ajay developed some signal processing techniques to process electroencephalogram (EEG) signals as part of his doctoral thesis. After his graduation, he worked as a faculty in a private engineering college from Oct. 2017 to Mar. 2019. Where he taught undergraduate courses: signal and system, digital signal processing and microprocessor and microcontrollers. After that, he moved to South Korea for his postdoctoral training at Kyungpook National University, Daegu, for a period of three years (from Sept. 2019 to Aug. 2022). During this training, his research work mainly focused on detecting the changes in the brain activity of stroke patients using EEG signal-based brain functional networks. He used both signal processing and machine learning techniques to detect the changes. Currently, Ajay is working on a project in Pan lab, where he is exploring how the SCHEMA genes loss-of-function alters the brain activity in mice using EEG data. Finally, he is a signal processing and machine learning researcher and holds experience in applying these techniques on physiological time-series data (EEG, ECG and EMG). Moreover, he is good at MATLAB and Python programming.