About Me

Hi, I am Mrugank Dake and I am a graduate student at Clayspace Lab, New York University working on understanding the role of distributed representation in working memory. I am broadly interested in how memories are represented in the brain.

Prior to this, I completed my Bachelors and Masters dual degree from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Tirupati in 2021 with a major in Biology and a minor in Physics. During this period, I have worked on a range of topics in the domains of Synthetic biology, Cancer, Neurobiology, Computational Neuroscience, Ecoacoustics and Machine Learning.

When not having my nth cup of coffee or working with data, you can find me playing chess, biking, hiking, or my new found interest in learning guitar.

Check out my CV for more details.

Research

Publications

Dake M., Rajamani N. (in prep). Inter and intra species similarities and differences using acoustic analysis of Funambulus squirrels of the Indian subcontinent.

Dake M., Curtis C. E. (2024). Perturbing human V1 degrades the fidelity of visual working memory. bioRxiv

Posters

Dake M., Curtis C. E. Do perturbations to visual cortex impact working memory?; In Society for Neuroscience (SfN), Washington D.C., USA (2023) View Poster

Khare S., Chopra S., Grover H., Vohra T., Mahmood U., Jatwani K., Kaushik D., Pandey A., Bhardwaj S., Tanwar A., Singh J., Shekhar C., Dake M., Krishnamoorthy K., Kumar K.; Li-Koff: To Detect and Degrade N-Nitrosamines; In Giant Jamboree (iGEM), Boston, USA (2020) View Poster

Amar I., Avadhani K., Bajaj M., Balasubramanian D., Bhagat S., Chutani N., Dake M., Khatri U., Krishna N., Jacob M., Mal S., Mohapatra O., Pal A., Saha D., Tripathy B., Mukherjee R., Rao B.J.; CoCa coli: probiotic immunotherapy against colon cancer; In Giant Jamboree (iGEM), Boston, USA (2019) View Poster

Talks & Symposia

Dake M., Curtis C. E.. Perturbing human V1 degrades the fidelity of visual working memory; In Working Memory Symposium (WMS) (Virtual) (2024)