Mohinish Shukla, Ph.D.
data science | cognitive neuroscience
RESUME
Work
experience
Lecturer
Universiteit van Amsterdam Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2023
I am a lecturer in the Brain and Cognition in Society program in the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences.
Researcher
Università degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Italy
2022 - 2023
I am working on developing web-based experiments for studies in language acquisition, developing analytics for neuroimaging studies, and mentoring younger students in the Baby Lab at the University of Padova.
Assistant Professor in Psychology
University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA, USA
2011 - 2020
I am one of three PIs of the UMass Boston Baby Lab. My own lab is capable of behavioral experiments with infants and adults, including reaction time experiments, eye-tracking studies using a remote eyetracker, brain imaging using a near-infrared spectroscopy machine, and any combination of these.
Post-doctoral fellow, Brain & Cognitive Science
Mentor: Prof. Richard N. Aslin
University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
2007 - 2011
I worked on developing eye-tracking and neuroimaging methods, and worked on infant studies in early language acquisition.
Technical Skills
●●●● Behavioral experiments (infants and adults), including Psyscope X, E-prime, etc.
●●●● Artificial language experiments
●●●● Eye-tracking
●●●● Near-Infrared Spectroscopy
●●●○ Neuroimaging (fMRI, EEG)
●●●● Machine learning and data science (certified on Coursera)
●●●○ Neural networks (certified on Coursera)
●●○○ Molecular genetics lab techniques (PCR, purification, growing bugs on plates)
Education
Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience
Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati
International School for Advanced Studies
Trieste, TS, Italy
1999 - 2006
I worked under Prof. Jacques Mehler and Prof. Marina Nespor on the interaction between prosody and statistical computations in segmenting fluent speech. My thesis is available here.
M.S. in Biological Sciences
Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore, India
1995 - 1998
I primarily worked on the rat proteins TP1 & TP2 that plays a role in DNA compaction during spermatogenesis. I also worked on the yeast RNA polymerase and its role in morphological switching, and spent a year studying forest dynamics in the Mudumalai forest, South India.
B.Sc. in Microbiology
Garware College, University of Pune
Pune, India
1992 - 1995
Majored in Microbiology; secondary courses were Biology and Zoology.
Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience
Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati
International School for Advanced Studies
Trieste, TS, Italy
1999 - 2006
I worked under Prof. Jacques Mehler and Prof. Marina Nespor on the interaction between prosody and statistical computations in segmenting fluent speech. My thesis is available here.
M.S. in Biological Sciences
Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore, India
1995 - 1998
I primarily worked on the rat proteins TP1 & TP2 that plays a role in DNA compaction during spermatogenesis. I also worked on the yeast RNA polymerase and its role in morphological switching, and spent a year studying forest dynamics in the Mudumalai forest, South India.
B.Sc. in Microbiology
Garware College, University of Pune
Pune, India
1992 - 1995
Majored in Microbiology; secondary courses were Biology and Zoology.
Computer Languages
●●●● Matlab
●●●● Python
●●●○ Javascript, R
Natural Languages
●●●● English, Marathi
●●●○ Italian, Hindi
●●○○ Telugu
●○○○ Dutch