Key Research Areas

1. NeuroAI


About

1. I work broadly in NeuroAI, combining neural signal processing, machine learning, computational neuroscience, and diagnostic medicine. My primary research program develops foundation models for EEG and other physiological signals, with the goal of learning robust and clinically meaningful representations of brain activity across subjects, devices, and recording conditions. This work supports computational biomarkers for neurological diagnosis, especially epilepsy and dementia, as well as cognitive and brain-state modelling relevant to attention, workload, performance, and human-machine interaction. After my doctoral work, I founded Mannas to translate these technologies beyond the laboratory into deployable clinical and commercial systems for patients, clinicians, and neurotechnology applications. In parallel, my group studies biological neural systems as examples of efficient computation under constraints of energy, wiring, noise, and limited data. This includes connectome-constrained modelling of the Drosophila visual system, where energy-information tradeoffs, wiring geometry, and eligibility-trace plasticity offer clues for designing efficient brain-inspired learning algorithms.


Recent Publications

1. N. Dhiman, & S. Panwar. Energy-efficient information processing and eligibility-trace plasticity in the Drosophila optic lobe connectome. Scientific Reports, 2026
2. J. B. Lahiri, A. Kulkarni and S. Panwar. Femtomodels for EEG Artifact Removal: A Parameter Lower-Bound for Generalisable EOG Denoising, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Barcelona, Spain, 2026, pp. 1521-1525
3. J.B. Lahiri, P. Agarwal, S. Kushwaha, M. Singh, & S. Panwar. Evaluating the clinical readiness of artificial intelligence in EEG-based epilepsy diagnosis. Journal of Neural Engineering, 22(6) 2025


Courses Taught

1. EE531 Estimation and Detection Theory
2. Signals and Systems