Vivek Anand

Vivek Anand

Neurotechnology Researcher

Georgia Institute of Technology

About Me

Hi there!

I’m a PhD Student in Machine Learning at Georgia Tech where I am advised by Prof. Christopher Rozell and Dr. Sankaraleengam Alagapan.

My mission is to help people become the best versions of themselves and help them thrive. I believe that democratising neurotechnology can help us achieve that.

My research interests are at the intersection of Neuroscience, Machine Learning and Economics. I am particularly interested in understanding how people make cost benefit decisions in daily life. My PhD thesis research is on objectively quantifying motivation in humans to better treat psychiatric disorders.

Currently I am working on 1) identifying the neural and body correlates of naturalistic effort based decision making (and motivation!) via highly instrumented tasks by analyzing SEEG, EMG, EKG and pupillometry 2) developing quantitative and purely data driven machine learning methods to learn representations of subjective percepts like effort perception.

Other than research, I love to hike, ski, make pots (quite badly) and read.

If you would like to get in contact with me, please reach out via email.

Education
  • Ph.D. in Machine Learning, In Progress

    Georgia Institute of Technology

  • M.S. in Computer Science, 2023

    Georgia Institute of Technology

  • B.S. (Honors) in Computer Science, 2021

    The Pennsylvania State University

  • B.S. in Biology, 2021

    The Pennsylvania State University

Recent Publications

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(2024). H^2ABM: Heterogeneous Agent-based Model on Hypergraphs to Capture Group Interactions. Proceedings of the 2024 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM).

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(2024). Learning-Augmented Energy-Aware List Scheduling of Precedence-Constrained Tasks. ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems.

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(2023). Incremental versus Optimal Design of Water Distribution Networks - the Case of Tree Topologies. International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications 2023.

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(2022). Mitigating Filter Bubbles within Deep Recommender Systems.

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(2022). Modelling Healthcare Associated Infections with Hypergraphs. epiDAMIK 5.0: The 5th International workshop on Epidemiology meets Data Mining and Knowledge discovery at KDD 2022.

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(2022). Learning-Augmented Energy-Aware Scheduling of Precedence-Constrained Tasks. ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review.

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