About me

Welcome to my academic website! My name is Avisha and I am a PhD Candidate at Johns Hopkins University in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. My research is at the intersection of machine learning and medicine. I work on optimizing focused ultrasound therapy in neurosurgery with computer vision, acoustic wave modeling, and operator learning. I am affiliated with the HEPIUS Neurosurgical Innovation Lab and the Neuroengineering Lab.

I received my Bachelor’s of Science (Dec 2019) and Master of Engineering (May 2020) degrees at Cornell University. During my time there, I was a member of the Space Systems Design Studio, with the research focus of spacecraft electrical system development. For my Master’s thesis, I delved into algorithms to emulate the mammalian olfactory system with neuromorphic systems. After completing my Masters degree, I spent a year as a computational neuroscience research scientist at Yale School of Medicine in the Blumenfeld Lab, using signal processing techniques to study the electrical activity of the brain in patients with epilepsy.