Ranga Deshpande
Professional Information
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, USA (2016-18)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA (2019)
Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Auburn University, Alabama, USA, 2016
M.S. Electrical Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 2012
B.Engg Electronics and Communication Engineering, RV College of Engineering, Bangalore, India, 2009
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Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Room 2248 (seat P)
149, 13th St
Charlestown, Massachusetts 02129 USA
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Dr. Ranga Deshpande is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is working on functional imaging of the brain and spine using fMRI and advanced data analysis techniques. Previously he was a postdoctoral research fellow at Northwestern University, Chicago, where he worked on fMRI in those with deep brain stimulation (DBS) implants as well as modeling neurovascular coupling using the hemodynamic response function (HRF). Prior to that, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at UCLA, studying time-varying fMRI connectivity in anxiety disorders and predicting clinical outcome using machine learning. He obtained PhD in 2016 from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Auburn University, Alabama, working on advanced fMRI analysis in soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder. He obtained a Master of Science in Electrical Communication Engineering from Indian Institute of Science, India. Ranga's approach is to adopt perspectives from engineering to answer difficult neuroscience questions using brain imaging.
