Hi, I'm Pranav.

I'm a doctoral researcher in the computational pain and aversive learning lab at the University of Oxford advised by Prof. Ben Seymour (NDCN, IBME) and co-advised by Dr. Ioannis Havoutis (ORI). My background is in engineering and I'm a Neuro-AI researcher interested in safe intelligence and AI for healthcare. My lived experiences of pain drive some of my research questions.

I'm introverted. I'm a cheerful pessimist. I try to keep thinking about conflicting ideas for longer periods and I find paradoxes deeply interesting. Much of my work is very interdisciplinary and I'm quite comfortable being an outsider in a new field of study.

I sketch sometimes (digitally) and enjoy electronic music. I am an Indian native from Pune city and I now live in Oxford, UK.

You can read my blog here :)

News

I'll be presenting a Spotlight presentation and a poster on our work on Quantitative Motor Testing at the Podium Institute Conference.
My work on Neural Associative Skill Memories has been accepted at 5th International Workshop on Active Inference (IWAI 2024) as a Spotlight presentation.
My DPhil's first preprint "Balancing safety and efficiency in human decision making" is now out on bioRxiv.
I will be giving an invited talk at 1st Oxford Health BRC Pain Conference (March 2024) on ’Virtual reality and Pain: From theory to practice’

Research Vision

Key motivations in Neuro-AI research are two-fold, using advancements from AI to generate useful hypotheses for neuroscience and using insights from neuroscience to develop better algorithms for AI.

With these motivations in mind, my research spans the following three directions:

(1) Safe Natural Intelligence, (2) Safe Artificial Intelligence and (3) AI and comp neuro for healthcare.