Kiran V Byadarhaly
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
Computational Neuroscience and Neural Modeling
Neural Networks, Machine Learning, Data Mining (Bayesian Methods, Regression Analysis,
Clustering, SVM, Reinforcement Learning)
Robotics, Dynamical Systems and Control
Stochastic systems and processes, Dynamic Programming.
EDUCATION
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oct 2013
Dissertation Title: “A Neurodynamical model of Synergistic motor control”
New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2006
Thesis Title: “Performance evaluation of various system identification methods for a servomotor
system”
The National Institute of Engineering, Mysore, India.
B.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 2003
EXPERIENCE
Graduate Researcher,
1) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati,
OH, 2007-2013. (Neural Networks, Machine learning, Computational Neuroscience)
2) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New Mexico State University, Las
Cruces, NM. January 2004 – August 2006. (Dynamical systems and Control)
3) Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bnagalore,India. 2003–
2004. (Data Mining, Neural Networks)
4) Applications Developer, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Cincinnati children’s
hospital medical center, Cincinnati, OH. September 2009 – September 2010.
Teaching Assistant, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Cincinnati, 2006-2012.
Course: Random Processes and Probability, Intelligent Systems, Automatic Control
PROGRAMMING SKILLS
Proficient in Matlab, C
Experienced in C++, Perl, JavaScript, HTML, CSS and BASH Shell programming.
Database: SQL
PUBLICATIONS :
"A Modular Neural Model of Motor Synergies", Kiran V. Byadarhaly, Mithun C. Perdoor and Ali A.
Minai, Neural Networks 25: (in press)(2012).
“A Hierarchical Model of Synergistic Motor Control”. Kiran V. Byadarhaly and Ali A. Minai,
Accepted to be presented at the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, August 2013.
" Synergistic organization of action: A computational model ”, Kiran V. Byadarhaly, Mithun
Perdoor and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks,
August 2011, pp. 2961-2968.
"A Synergistic View of Autonomous Cognitive Systems", Ali A. Minai, Mithun Perdoor, Kiran V.
Byadarhaly, Suresh Vasa and Laxmi R. Iyer, Proceedings of the World Congress on
Computational Intelligence, Barcelona, Spain, July 2010.
“A spiking neural model for the spatial coding of cognitive response sequences”, Suresh Vasa,
Tao Ma, Kiran V. Byadarhaly, Mithun C. Perdoor and Ali A. Minai, Proceedings of the IEEE 9th
International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), 2010.
“A Computational Model of Motor Synergies”, Kiran V. Byadarhaly, Mithun C. Perdoor, Presented
at The Inaugural Meeting of the Center for Cognition, Action, & Perception, Cincinnati, OH. 05-
2010 (Award of Excellence for an Outstanding Presentation)
"Learning Complex Population-Coded Sequences”, Kiran V. Byadarhaly, Mithun Perdoor, Suresh
Vasa, Emmanuel Fernandez and Ali A. Minai, in Artificial Neural Networks - ICANN 2009 (Lecture
Notes in Computer Science 5769), C. Alippi, M. Polycarpou, C. Panayiotou, G. Ellinas (eds.), pp.
296-305 (2009).
AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
University Graduate Scholarship, University of Cincinnati, (2006-2012)
Certifications: Coursera : Machine Learning (Oct 2013 – Present)