Mriganka Sur

  1. Home
  2. Wiki
For the Indian politician, see Mriganka Mohan Sur.

Mriganka Sur
Born1953 (age 71–72)
Fatehgarh, India
NationalityIndian
OccupationNeuroscientist
Academic background
Alma materIIT Kanpur (B.Tech.)
Vanderbilt University (M.Eng.), (Eng.D.)
Academic work
InstitutionsMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Yale University
Websitewww.surlab.org

Mriganka Sur (born 1953 in Fatehgarh, India) is an Indian neuroscientist. He is the Newton Professor of Neuroscience and Director of the Simons Center for the Social Brain at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1][2] He is also a visiting faculty member in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras and N.R. Narayana Murthy Distinguished Chair in Computational Brain Research at the Centre for Computational Brain Research, IIT Madras.[3][4] He was on the Life Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize in 2010 and has been serving as jury chair from 2018.[5]

Biography

[edit]

Mriganka Sur did his early schooling at the St. Joseph's Collegiate School, Allahabad. He received the Bachelor of Technology degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur (IIT Kanpur) in 1974, and the Master of Science and PhD degrees in electrical engineering in 1975 and 1978, respectively, from Vanderbilt University in Nashville.[citation needed] After postdoctoral research at Stony Brook University, he was appointed to the faculty of Yale University School of Medicine in 1983. He joined the faculty of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1986. He was named in 1993 professor of neuroscience and in 1997 head of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. He is currently the Newton Professor of Neuroscience and director of the Simons Center for the Social Brain at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[6][7][8][9]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "Home". Sur Lab. Retrieved 7 February 2019.
  2. ^ "Brain and Cognitive Sciences". bcs.mit.edu. Retrieved 7 February 2019.
  3. ^ "Members - CSE-IITM". www.cse.iitm.ac.in. Retrieved 13 February 2020.
  4. ^ "CCBR | Home". ccbr.iitmadras.in. Retrieved 13 February 2020.
  5. ^ "Infosys Prize - Jury 2020". www.infosys-science-foundation.com. Retrieved 10 December 2020.
  6. ^ "Star-Shaped Brain Cells Make Scans Possible". The Washington Post. 19 June 2008. Retrieved 29 September 2010.
  7. ^ "Mriganka Sur Laboratory at MIT". Sur Laboratory website. Retrieved 11 April 2011.
  8. ^ "Brain and Cognitive Sciences". MIT Departmental website. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
  9. ^ "Mriganka Sur : The Picower Institute". Picower Institute for Learning and Memory website.