Meet the Team
Prof. Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam
Professor, Dept of Electrical Engineering
Director- HTIC
IIT Madras
Prof. Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam
Dr. Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam, Professor of Electrical Engineering at IIT Madras, is a leader in affordable healthcare technologies. He founded the Sudha Gopalakrishnan Brain Centre (SGBC) and the Healthcare Technology Innovation Centre (HTIC), publishing 350+ papers (h-index 41; 6,096 citations). HTIC, India's leading med-tech ecosystem, unites 40+ institutions and industries to develop affordable healthcare solutions, impacting 13 million people across ophthalmology, diagnostics, patient monitoring, and endoscopy, with a projected reach of 50 million in five years. Its incubator has supported 60+ startups, one-third revenue-generating, across digital health, VR training, telemedicine, predictive diagnostics, and AI-driven healthcare. Professor Mohansankar has been honored with the Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar 2025 in the Vigyan Yuva category for his pioneering work in affordable medical devices and brain mapping.
Late Dr. Jaikishan Jayakumar
Senior Project Advisor
CCBR
IIT Madras
Late Dr. Jaikishan Jayakumar
Dr. Jaikishan Jayakumar was a Neurobiologist at the Sudha Gopalakrishnan Brain Centre and the Center for Computational Brain Research, IIT Madras. He studies the network organization of brain circuits and how neuronal networks give rise to perception, attention, and vision. His experimental research spans mice, macaques, marmosets, cats, and humans, addressing fundamental questions in neural circuitry and function.
Dr. Richa Verma
Chief Scientific Officer
Sudha Gopalakrishnan Brain Centre
IIT Madras
Dr. Richa Verma
Dr. Richa Verma has been Chief Scientific Officer at the Sudha Gopalakrishnan Brain Centre, IIT Madras, since 2020. She established a whole-brain multimodal platform and led the development of the recently released second-trimester human brain atlas. Her research focuses on cellular aspects of human brain development, with broader experience in systems neuroscience, retinal electrophysiology, and higher-education curriculum design. She completed her PhD at the University of Melbourne and postdoctoral training at Monash University, studying visual system plasticity in non-human primates.
Dr. Jayaraj Joseph
Associate Professor
Dept of Electrical Engineering
IIT Madras
Prof. Manikandan Narayanan
Associate Professor
Dept of Computer Science and Engineering
IIT Madras
Mr. Keerthi Ram
Lead Engineering - Imaging
Sudha Gopalakrishnan Brain Centre
IIT Madras
Mr. Keerthi Ram
Keerthi Ram is a Computer Engineer with research expertise in medical image processing. He has led collaborative projects in big image data analytics, systems development, and computational optimization. His work maps medical imaging problems to machine learning techniques, including regression, anomaly detection, self-supervised, and unsupervised learning. At the Sudha Gopalakrishnan Brain Centre, he has customized an open-source software stack for image and volumetric visualization, enabling high-resolution rendering of whole-brain data to thin-client web applications, as well as multimodal image data processing and curation.
Mr. Sivathanu Neelakantan
Software Architect
Sudha Gopalakrishnan Brain Centre
IIT Madras
Mr. Sivathanu Neelakantan
Sivathanu Neelakantan is a Technology Leader and Software Architect with 28+ years of experience in software and hardware engineering across neuroscience, biomedical engineering, and network management. He designs distributed, high-performance systems handling petabyte-scale datasets, with end-to-end pipelines, parallel processing, secure access, and integration with HPC and cloud. Using microservices, RESTful APIs, and asynchronous data flows, his solutions are reliable, scalable, and fault-tolerant. At the Sudha Gopalakrishnan Brain Centre, IIT Madras, he architected Parallel File Systems, high-speed networking, and hybrid CPU-GPU platforms, enabling efficient processing of massive complex datasets and advancing high-throughput neuroscience research
Our Team
Dr. Ananthapadmanabha. K
Dr. K N Rakesh
Dr. Pratik R. Chaudhari
Abinaya S
Amal Dhivahar S.
Anjana Pithakumar
Anuja T
Aparna Ayyappan
Ashutosh Kumar
Ayantika Das
Dr. Ahsan Ali
Easha Doulagar
Gayathri Kumaran
Geofray Paul J
Gunjan
Jawahar Sri prakash
Jayanthi Jayakumar
Jivitha Jyothi Ramesh
Kishore
Kritika Dave
Madhu Hasan
Nishath Fathima M
Pooja V S
Priyadharshini
Rakshika Raveendran
Roshan Kumar V A M
Shevani Arun A
Shrimathi Mani
Sivaprasath
Soundharya Venkatesh
Srayaa S
Sruti Rekha Muni
Tahiti M
Supriti Mulay
A S T Aditya Bharg
Azarudin Bihari
Chrisline Sam
Divya
Gayathri B
Hemanand
Meena Vishali
Nathan I
Nithesh Kumar Sundhar
Ramanan
Sriram V
Veni
Vinoth Kanna
Keerthi Ram
Sivathanu Neelakantan
Kishore
Manju Gnana Kavi
Jigneshkumar
Abirami M
Alex
Bhuvaneshwari
Bodhini M
Chandru G
Dhaga Shahib A
Dhanamathi K
Dhivya S
Dilli Priya
Dineshtharan
E Thamarai Selvi
Elangovan S
Gangadharan K
Gokul Pazhani
Gokulalakshmi
Hariharan C
Irene Priscilla Priyakumari
Jansy E
Kamalesh Kumar
Kanisha
Karan RG
Karthick Venu
Karthikeyan.S
Kaushika S
Kumaraguru.M
Lalitha Sree
Logeashwari T
Madhavan K
Manikandan B
Manojkumar
Mohamaded Haroon Rasithu
Mohamed Riyaz
Monisha
Nagoor Meeran A
Nathiya
Navamani
Nithya Murugavel
Nithyashree S
Pandiyaraj.M.
Parthiban
Prabhu R
Puviyarasan S
R Ghose Baig
Reshma R
S Viji
Santhoshi Rajendiran
Sariga R
Shri Lakshminarayanan
Sivkamasundari
Sowganthika
Swetha S
Tamilarasan R
Thanushree C
Tharageshwer V S
Vanisree
Varshini
Visali Vijayaragavan
Wasim
Aashik S
Harshavardhiny
Kamal Saravanan P
Mohamed Masthan K
Prithviraj P R
Ramdayalan R K
Sathish A
Saravanan P
Sindhu R
Our Collaborators
Scientific Collaborators
Amunts, Katrin
Professor for Brain Research and Director of the Cécile and Oskar Vogt Institute of Brain Research at the Heinrich-Heine University (HHU) Düsseldorf, Director of the Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Research Centre Jülich, Germany
Bota, Mihail
Visiting Faculty, Sudha Gopalakrishnan Brain Centre, IIT Madras, Chennai, India
Evans, Alan C.
Distinguished James McGill Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, Scientific Director of McGill’s Healthy Brains for Healthy Lives initiative and the Canadian Open Neuroscience Platform Co-director of the Ludmer Centre for Neuroinformatics and Mental Health Victor Dahdaleh Chair in Neurosciences McGill University, Canada
Folkerth, Rebecca
Principal Core Scientist, Brain Injury Research Center Clinical Professor, Dept. of Rehabilitation and Human Performance, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York Clinical Professor Emerita, Department of Forensic Medicine, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, USA
Herculano-Houzel, Suzana
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA
Jacquemont, Sébastien
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada Medical Geneticist, CHU Sainte-Justine Pediatric Hospital Research Center, Montréal, Canada
Karamchandani, Jason
Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, McGill University Neuropathologist at The Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, Canada
Keene, C. Dirk
Chair in Neuropathology, Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Adjunct Professor of Ophthalmology and Neurological Surgery, Director of the Division of Neuropathology, and Associate Director of the UW Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. Nancy and Buster Alvord Endowed Chair and Director of Neuropathology, University of Washington, USA
Lein, Ed S.
Executive Vice President and Director of Brain Health Accelerator, Allen Institute for Brain Science Affiliate Professor, Departments of Neurological Surgery and Laboratory Medicine and Pathology (DLMP) University of Washington, USA
Manger, Paul
Professor, School of Anatomical Sciences, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Millen, Kathleen J.
Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle Children's Research Institute, USA
Mitra, Partha P.
Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York, USA Distinguished Chair Professor, IIT Madras, India
Mota, Bruno
Professor, Physics Institute, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Muralidharan, Bhavana
Associate Professor, Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine, Bangalore, India
Nauen, David W.
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, USA
Nowakowski, Tomasz J.
Associate Professor in the Department of Neurological Surgery and Anatomy, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Pu, Mu‑ming
Scientific Director, Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and CAS Centre for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology,China
Raghunathan, Anand
Silicon Valley Chair Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, USA
Šimić, Goran
Professor of Neuroscience and Anatomy at the University of Zagreb School of Medicine and Head of the Department of Neuroscience at the Croatian Institute for Brain Research (CIBR), Croatia
Sur, Mriganka
Newton Professor of Neuroscience and Director of the Simons Center for the Social Brain, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA
Talpalaru, Ștefan
Project Consultant, Sudha Gopalakrishnan Brain Centre, IIT Madras, Chennai, India
Vaidya, Vidita
Professor and Chairperson, the Department of Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, India
Vidyasagar, Trichur R.
Professor in the Department of Optometry and Vision Sciences, Honorary Professorial Fellow in the Florey Department of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Australia
Zandee, Stephanie
Assistant Professor of Neuroimmunology, McGill University, Canada
Clinical Collaborators
Christian Medical College (CMC)
National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS)
Saveetha Medical College
Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research (SRMC)
Mediscan Systems
Department of Radiodiagnosis, All India Institute Of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)
Kilpauk Medical College
Smt. B.K. Shah Medical Institute & Research Centre (SBKS MIRC)
Kadji Care
