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 8/11/2025

    Qiang Y, Gu W, Jang D, Shin Y, Shi D, Seo KJ, Li G, Vinnikova S, Wu S, Iyer A, Artoni P, Ryu J, Bai T, Dhawan V, Medalla M, Rosene DL, Moore TL, Koppes AN, Koppes R, Liou JY, Chandrasekaran C, Cui XT, Wang S, Fang H. Monolithic three-dimensional neural probes from deterministic rolling of soft electronics. Nat Electron. 2025 Aug; 8(8):721-737. PMID: 40951322.

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  • Published 7/31/2025

    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 visualization and identification of electrophysiological cell types in vivo. bioRxiv. 2025 Jul 31. PMID: 40766549.

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  • Published 6/25/2025

    Carr N, Zhu S, Chen X, Lee K, Perliss A, Moore T, Chandrasekaran C. Neuropixels reveal structure-function relationships in monkey V1 in vivo. bioRxiv. 2025 Jun 25. PMID: 40463048.

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  • Published 6/25/2025

    Genkin M, Shenoy KV, Chandrasekaran C, Engel TA. The dynamics and geometry of choice in the premotor cortex. Nature. 2025 Sep; 645(8079):168-176. PMID: 40562938.

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  • Published 4/6/2025

    Yu H, Lyu H, Xu EY, Windolf C, Lee EK, Yang F, Shelton AM, Olsen S, Minavi S, Winter O, Dyer EL, Chandrasekaran C, Steinmetz NA, Paninski L, Hurwitz C. In vivo cell-type and brain region classification via multimodal contrastive learning. bioRxiv. 2025 Apr 06. PMID: 39574717.

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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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