Krishna Prasad Miyapuram

Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience,
University of Cambridge, Downing Site, Cambridge, CB23DY

Phone:+44-1223-339544 Mobile:+44-7886098353
Nationality : Indian Email: [email protected]

EDUCATION

2004 – date
Ph. D. University of Cambridge, UK
Thesis: Functional Imaging of Reward Processes in Human Brain.

2002 – 2004
Master of Technology in Artificial Intelligence at Department of Computer & Information Sciences, University of Hyderabad, India CGPA 8.34 on 10 point scale.
Thesis: Visuomotor Mappings and Sequence Learning: A Whole Brain fMRI Investigation.

1998 – 2000
Master of Science in Electronics from School of Physics, University of Hyderabad, India. 74.49%.
Project: Computer Control of XY-Stage in a Laser Probe. Physical research laboratory, Ahmedabad, India.

1995 – 1998
Bachelor of Science from Osmania University, Hyderabad, India. 83.5% (Mathematics, Physics, Electronics)

WORK EXPERIENCE


Visiting Researcher at Advanced Telecommunications Research International, Kyoto, Japan

July – Sept 2003 (for 76 days)
Core Research for Evolutionary Science and Technology, JST.

Dec 2000 – Feb 2001 (for 60 days)
Kawato Dynamic Brain Project, Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology, JST.

2000 – 2002
Research Assistant at Department of Computer & Information Sciences, University of Hyderabad.
Project: Indo-Japanese Project titled “Sequence Learning: An fMRI Investigation”



COMPUTER / PROGRAMMING SKILLS
· Experimental paradigm coding in Matlab, C, under Windows, Macintosh and Linux enviroments, SPM software for fMRI data analysis, Statistica & Statview, familiarity with Java

FELLOWSHIPS & SCHOLARSHIPS
· Lundgren Research Award, Univeristy of Cambridge (2007)
· Overseas Research Scholarship (ORS) Award for Ph.D study at University of Cambridge, UK (Oct 2004 ­ - Sept 2007)
· Cambridge Nehru Scholarship, Cambridge Commonwealth Trust (Oct 2004 ­- date)
· Fellow, Cambridge Commonwealth Society
· Ministry of Human Resource Development, India GATE scholarship (2003-2004)
AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS
· Editor’s Choice Award (2006) for publication in NeuroImage.
· Peer Reviewer: Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
· Reviewer for International Joint Conference on Neural Networks 2007.
· Best Poster award at Building the Brain, NBRC, Delhi (2003).
· Best Poster award at International Conference on Theoretical Neurobiology, NBRC, Delhi (2003).
· Training provided on neuroimaging analysis softwares to Radiology Department, National Institute for Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, India.
· Graduate Record Examination (2002) high scores (out of 800): Quantitative – 800 and Analytical – 750
· TOEFL (2003) score 273 / 300 and TWE 6.0 / 6.0
· Qualified in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE), India – 2003 in Computer Science Discipline with 90.45 percentile
· Qualified in GATE – 2000 in Electronics and Communication Discipline with 76.03 percentile
· Merit Certificate in State Mathematics Olympiad at under-graduate level

REFEREES

Prof. Wolfram Schultz, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB23DY, U.K. Email: [email protected]

Dr. Raju S. Bapi, Computational Intelligence Laboratory,
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad – 500046, India. Email: [email protected]

Dr. Kenji Doya, Head, Department of Computational Neurobiology
ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories
2-2-2 Hikaridai, Seika, Soraku, Kyoto 619-0288, Japan. Email: [email protected]

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

Journal

  1. Miyapuram, K.P., Tobler, P.N., Gregorios-Pippas L., Schultz, W. (Communicated) Activation of human midbrain by stimuli associated with reward imagination.
  2. Miyapuram, K.P., Tobler, P.N., Gregorios-Pippas L., Schultz, W. (in preparation) Illusion of monetary rewards in the human brain.
  3. R.S. Bapi, K.P. Miyapuram, F.X.Graydon, K. Doya (2006). fMRI investigation of cortical and subcortical networks in the learning of abstract and effector-specific representations of motor sequences. Neuroimage, 32(2), 714-727. {Editor’s Choice Award for the year 2006}
  4. R.S. Bapi, V.S.C. Pammi, K.P. Miyapuram, Ahmed. Investigation of sequence processing: A cognitive and computational neuroscience perspective. Current Science, 89(10), pp.1690–1698, 2005.

Conference Proceedings

  1. V. Singh, K.P. Miyapuram, R.S. Bapi Detection of Cognitive States from fMRI Data Using Machine Learning Techniques. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Hyderabad, India 2007: 587-592
  2. K.P. Miyapuram, R.S. Bapi, K. Doya (2006) Chunking Patterns Reflect Effector-dependent Representation of Motor Sequence. In Proceedings The 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society ISBN 0-9768318-2-1, pages pp. 1835-1837, Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
  3. K.P. Miyapuram, R.S. Bapi, V.S.C. Pammi, Ahmed, K. Doya. Hierarchical Chunking during Learning of Visuomotor Sequences. IEEE Proceedings of International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Canada 2006
  4. V.S.C. Pammi, K.P. Miyapuram, R.S. Bapi, K. Doya. Chunking Phenomenon in Complex Sequential Skill Learning in Humans. In: Pal, N.R., Kasabov, N., Mudi, R.K., Pal, S., Parui, S.K. (eds.), Lecture notes in Computer Science, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2004), Springer–Verlag, Heidelberg, 3316, pp. 294–299, 2004.
  5. V.S.C. Pammi, K.P. Miyapuram, R.S. Bapi, C. Bhagavati, T. Brahmaiah, Ch. Chandra Sekhar Rao. Investigation of Time Series Modelling to Explicate the Learning Related Activity Observed in fMRI Data. International Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics And Informatics, Hyderabad, India, 2004. pp. 667-672.
  6. V.S.C. Pammi, R.S. Bapi, Ahmed, K.P. Miyapuram, K. Doya. Differential Spontaneous Reorganization of Sequences during Performance of Complex Visuo–motor Skills. Proceedings of the International Conference on Cognitive Science, Allahabad, India, pp. 211–215, 2004.
  7. R.S. Bapi, V.S.C. Pammi, K.P. Miyapuram, Methods and Approaches for Characterizing Learning Related Changes observed in functional MRI Data - A Survey. Proceedings of the International Conference on Theoretical Neurobiology, New Delhi, India, 2003. {Best Poster Award} pp. 221-229.
  8. R.S. Bapi, K.P. Miyapuram, V.S.C. Pammi. A Multi-disciplinary Approach to the Investigation of Aspects of Serial Order in Cognition. Proceedings of the National Seminar on Cognitive Science, Hyderabad, 2002.
  9. P.V.S. Chandrasekhar, M. Krishna Prasad, S. Bapi Raju. Statistical Parametric Mapping For Analysis of Functional Magnetic Resonance Images - A Case Study. Proceedings of the National Conference on Recent Developments and Challenges in Physics, Hyderabad, India, 2002.
  10. Ahmed, S. Bapi Raju, P.V.S. Chandrasekhar, M. Krishna Prasad. Application of Multilayer Perceptron Network for Tagging Parts-of-Speech. Proceedings of the Language Engineering Conference (LEC'02), IEEE Computer Society, pp. 57-63, 2002.
  11. R.R. Mahajan, M. K. Prasad, S.V.S. Murty. Laser Microprobe for analysis of Noble gases and Nitrogen in a single grain. Proceedings of the 8th ISMAS symposium on Mass Spectrometry, Hyderabad, Dec.1999. {Best Paper Award}

Poster Presentations

  1. Miyapuram, K.P., Tobler, P.N., Gregorios-Pippas L., Schultz, W. Illusion of monetary rewards in the human brain. Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar, 2007.
  2. Also presented at Science for Public at Cambridge Science Week, 2007.
  3. School of Biological Sciences, University of Cambridge poster competition, 2006, and
  4. Autumn School in Cognitive Neuroscience, Oxford, 2005.
  5. Miyapuram, K.P., Tobler, P.N., Gregorios-Pippas L., Schultz, W. Mode of reward presentation elicits differential activations in orbitofrontal cortex. British Neuroscience Association, 2005.
  6. K.P. Miyapuram, R.S. Bapi, Kenji Doya Visuomotor Mappings and Sequence Learning, Computational Neuroscience Society, S85, Edinburgh, 2006.
  7. K.P. Miyapuram, S. Bapi Raju, K. Samejima, K. Doya Neural bases of sequence learning and visuomotor mappings: an fMRI study, British Neuroscience Association, 2005.
  8. K.P. Miyapuram, R.S Bapi, K. Samejima, K. Doya. Neural bases of sequence learning and visuo-motor mappings: an fMRI study. International Neuroscience Conference, Hyderabad, India, pp. 72-73, 2004.
  9. V.S.C. Pammi, K.P. Miyapuram, R.S Bapi, K. Samejima, K. Doya. Differential roles of areas of striatum in complex sequential skill learning. International Neuroscience Conference, Hyderabad, India, pp. 67-68, 2004.
  10. V.S.C. Pammi, K.P. Miyapuram, R.S. Bapi, K. Samejima, K. Doya. . Acquisition of Complex Sequential Skills: Behavioral and fMRI Investigation, NBRC International Symposium, Manesar, India, 2003. {Best Poster Award}
  11. K.P. Miyapuram, R.S. Bapi, F.X. Graydon, K. Doya. Time course of activation of visual and motor representations during visuomotor skill learning, Networks and Behavior, NCBS Neurobiology Symposium, Bangalore, India, 2003.
  12. V.S.C. Pammi, R.S. Bapi, K.P. Miyapuram, K. Samejima, K. Doya. The activation of Orbitofrontal Cortex reflects Trial and Error processes in a Visuomotor Sequence Learning task. Networks and Behavior, NCBS Neurobiology Symposium, India, 2003.
  13. K.P. Miyapuram, R.S. Bapi, V.S.C. Pammi, K. Samejima, K. Doya. fMRI Investigation of the Learning of Visuo-motor Sequences of increasing complexity. Annual Meeting of Society for Neuroscience, USA, 2001.


Krishna Prasad Miyapuram 05 July 2007
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