Chandramouli Chandrasekaran, PhD

Assistant Professor, Boston University College of Arts and Sciences

Biography

I am an Assistant Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology and Psychological and Brain Sciences at Boston University and Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine.

My research interests are in identifiying the neural dynamical systems mediating decision-making and goal-directed behavior on the basis of uni- and multisensory inputs. My research interests are best illustrated by an example. For instance, what are the neural mechanisms which allow one to press the brakes when the stop light turns red and the gas pedal when the light turns green.

As a PhD student with Asif Ghazanfar at Princeton, I examined how information from visual and auditory cues are combined, a process termed multisensory integration. Before that I was a masters student at the international Max Planck Research School at the University of Tübingen in Germany. I worked with Ian Thornton, Tony Gummer , Martin Giese and Zoe Kourtzi. I also had fun being a programmer with Nikos Logothetis before I moved to Princeton to work with Asif.

Being an academic means a peripatetic lifestyle. I have had the pleasure of living in beautiful academic settings such as Tübingen, Princeton and Stanford for a few years. Much of my time is spent in my lab.

Publications

  • Published 4/15/2026

    Lee EK, Gül AE, Heller G, Lakunina A, Yu H, Shelton A, Olsen S, Steinmetz NA, Hurwitz C, Jaramillo S, Przytycki PF, Chandrasekaran C. A multimodal approach for visualizing and identifying electrophysiological cell types in vivo. Nat Commun. 2026 Apr 15. PMID: 41986318.

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  • Published 2/18/2026

    Carr N, Zhu S, Chen X, Lee EK, Perliss A, Moore T, Chandrasekaran C. Neuropixels reveal laminar microcircuit organization in monkey V1 in vivo. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2026 Feb 24; 123(8):e2521556123. PMID: 41706902.

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  • Published 12/12/2025

    Major AJ, Abdaltawab A, Phillips JM, Wang T, Lee EK, Lichtenfeld MJ, Chandrasekaran C, Saalmann YB, Maier A, Desimone R, Miller EK, Bastos AM, Mendoza-Halliday D. A. J. Major et al. reply. Nat Neurosci. 2026 Feb; 29(2):284-286. PMID: 41387577.

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  • Published 11/12/2025

    Chandrasekaran C, Gupta D, Javadzadeh M, Wang T, Vivar-Lazo M, Engel T, Cisek P, Fetsch CR. No Central Executive? Decision Formation Through Multi-Area Population Dynamics. J Neurosci. 2025 Nov 12; 45(46). PMID: 41224662.

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  • Published 9/30/2025

    Aghamohammadi C, Chandrasekaran C, Engel TA. A doubly stochastic renewal framework for partitioning spiking variability. Nat Commun. 2025 Sep 30; 16(1):8656. PMID: 41027908.

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Other Positions

  • Assistant Professor, Anatomy & Neurobiology
    Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

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Education

  • Princeton University, PhD
  • Princeton University, MA
  • Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, MS
  • University of Madras, BSc

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