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 enjoy philosophical discourses.
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.
News
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’
Presented my ongoing work on the safety-efficiency dilemma at the Metaconscious group led by Dr Guangyu Robert Yang at MIT.
Our (Seymour) lab along with many colleagues and collaborators will be organising a Pain and VR workshop for PhD students, postdocs and early career researchers at LMH, Uni of Oxford - with hands-on VR tutorials conducted by Shuangyi and I
Presented our collaborative work on QACT at Neuromatch Conference 4.0
Presented our work on safety-efficiency dilemma at the COSYNE conference 2022 in Lisbon, Portugal.
Selected Projects
Want to get in touch?
Email me at pranav[dot]mahajan[at]ndcn.ox.ac.uk
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