Shyam Diwakar
Director at Sakshat Amrita Virtual Labs (VALUE@Amrita)
Kerala, India
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Top SchoolShyam Diwakar is a neuroscience-focused engineering leader with over a decade of experience directing interdisciplinary research and teaching at Amrita University, currently serving as Director of the Amrita Mind Brain Center and Professor across engineering and biotechnology schools. He builds and leads labs that blend computational neuroscience, biorobotics and brain–machine interfaces, having led multiple government-funded projects modeling cerebellar circuits and developing BMI-driven robotic arms. Comfortable at the intersection of tech, science and education, he has a track record of creating virtual laboratories and large-scale training programs to democratize hands-on learning. Based in Kerala, he pairs deep academic credentials (PhD in Computational Sciences) with practical lab-building and international collaboration experience, and is known for bringing philosophical and cultural perspectives into technical conversations.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
University of MilanSecondary (1996) and High School Leaving Certificates (1998), Secondary (1996) and High School Leaving Certificates (1998) at Stanes Higher Secondary School, Coimbatore, IndiaBachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Bharathiar University
English, Tamil, Malayalam, Italian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (10)
computational-neuroscience7
electrophysiology7
simulation6
neuroscience5
abaqus3
architecture2
hybrid1
deep-learning1
spiking-neural-networks1
neural-network1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
compneuro/LFPsim
Mar 2016 - Jun 2018
Simulation scripts to compute Local Field Potentials (LFP) of cable compartmental models implemented with NEURON
Contributions:7 commits, 15 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 3 months
neurosciencecablelfpcomputational-neurosciencesimulation
compneuro/compneuro
Mar 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 11 months
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