Naveen Agnihotri's Bio

• Where do I spend most of my time?
  I am the Chief Technology Officer of Sobayli, where we devise neural networks and other algorithms to make computers behave more like brains.

• Where have I studied?
  My high school was St. Francis de Sales School in Janakpuri, New Delhi.

  I got my undergraduate degree in Computer Engineering at Delhi Institute of Technology in India, and MS from the Department of Engineering at the University of Georgia, working with William Kisaalita on fluorescence imaging of cyclic AMP in PC12 cells.

  PhD in Neurobiology and Behavior from Columbia University, where I worked with Eric Kandel, studying place cells and spatial memory.

  Post-doctoral fellowship with Sebastian Seung at the Dept of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, where I investigated the properties of large networks of neurons.

• Hobbies
  When I'm not doing research, I spend time taking photos or playing classical guitar.

  You can read about my experiences with computers and web servers, as well as general notes on things scientific. And here are some works of the famous American poet Charles Bukowski.

  Here's an essay that a wrote a long time ago, called Life, Research and Everything. Among other things, it describes my research, and the field as I saw it then, back in 1994, as I was making the transition from computer science to neurobiology.

  When I was young, I used to think that people would read my resumé on the web and offer me jobs. That strategy worked very well: after pursuing it for twelve years, I have received zero job offers as a result of my website. On the other hand, several people have looked at my photos and asked me if I can take photos at their wedding/kid's birthday. For nostalgic reasons, my resumé is still found here, as well as a PDF version.

  I haven't been updating my page of links for the last ten years or so, but I maintain it for backward compatibility. I am very weary of people removing web pages without regard to others who may have linked to them -- so I never remove any pages.

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