{"id":1038,"date":"2021-09-24T12:18:36","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T19:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.lifesci.ucla.edu\/ibp-venugopal\/?page_id=1038"},"modified":"2022-01-08T16:29:11","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T00:29:11","slug":"director","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.lifesci.ucla.edu\/ibp-venugopal\/director\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sharmila Venugopal, Ph.D.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Principal Investigator<\/strong><\/p>\n

Assistant Adjunct Professor
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Education<\/h5>\n

Ph.D. in Neuroscience (2008)<\/strong>
\nThe Ohio State University, USA<\/p>\n

Master of Science in Electrical Engineering\u00a0(2004)<\/strong>
\nThe Ohio State University, USA<\/p>\n

Bachelor\u2019s in Engineering (1999)<\/strong>
\nBangalore University, India<\/p>\n

Leadership Roles<\/h5>\n

Organization for Computational Neuroscience (2017-2020)<\/strong>
\nEducation and Training Chair and Board Member<\/p>\n

International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility\u00a0(2020 – Date)<\/strong>
\nDeputy Chair, Standards and Best Practices Committee
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Bio<\/h5>\n

Dr. Venugopal<\/strong> is an Electrical Engineer and Neuroscientist. She was born and raised in Bengaluru, India where she completed her Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering<\/a>. Her first taste of research was as an undergraduate when she conducted a year-long project at the Indian Institute of Science<\/a>. Following completion of her degree, she worked as a Software Engineer at Cognizant Technology Solutions<\/a> for two years. Her penchant for further studies led her to The Ohio State University<\/a> where she obtained her Masters degree in Electrical Engineering<\/a>. It is here that she also made a key career transition to Neuroscience when she began seeing the value of interdisciplinary research. She obtained her Ph.D. degree in Neuroscience<\/a> under the co-mentorship of Dr. Joseph Travers and Dr. David Terman . She pursued her postdoctoral work with Dr. Ranu Jung in the Center for Adaptive Neural Systems at Arizona State University<\/a> and Dr. Scott Chandler at UCLA<\/a>. Following this, she spent a year as an Assistant Researcher in Dr. Baljit Khakh’s lab at UCLA. Through these diverse experiences, she values multidisciplinary training, collegiality, mentorship and collaboration.<\/p>\n

She joined the UCLA Life Sciences division as a faculty member in 2015. She spearheaded the creation of Neural Dynamics Group, where trainees cultivate collaborative research skills in both experimental and computational Neuroscience. Besides work, her passion lies in learning about food from around the world, singing classical Indian music and travelling with family. She believes that diversity is the language of life (cells to organisms to communities), one must treat others like how they want to be treated, and never to be disgraced for who you are!<\/p>\n

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