Brandon Jay Bhasin

Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellow (Anonymous Donor)
PhD Student, Department of Bioengineering
learning, memory, neuro-theory
Affiliation:
Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellows Alumni
MBCT Graduate Alumni

I am a PhD student in the department of Bioengineering, co-advised by Jennifer Raymond (Stanford Neurobiology) and Mark Goldman (UC Davis Neuroscience). I am interested in the principles by which learning and memory operate, and in my research I am studying mathematical models of learning in the control of eye movement reflexes, which are mediated by neural circuits in the cerebellum. Before coming to Stanford, I received a BS in Biomedical Engineering and Mathematics at Johns Hopkins University, and as a grateful recipient of a Whitaker International Fellowship, an MSc in Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Computing from the University of Oxford.

Related Projects

Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
SIGF - Graduate Fellowship
2018
Synaptic rules and circuit architectures for learning from feedback

Dr. Brandon Jay Bhasin will use engineering principles from modern control theory, experimental neuroscience and computational neuroscience to significantly advance understanding of how feedback driven plasticity in a tractable neural circuit is orchestrated across multiple synaptic sites and over various timescales so that circuit dynamics are changed to improve performance.