Sharmila Venugopal

Sharmila Venugopal is an assistant adjunct professor in the Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, Division of Life Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is an electrical engineer and neuroscientist, and leads the Neural Dynamics Group at UCLA. Her research interests include computational neuroscience, neurophysiology and neural engineering with applications to health and disease. Venugopal also develops and teaches interdisciplinary math-biology courses for undergraduate life sciences majors at UCLA. She currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors and is Education and Training Chair for the Organization for Computational Neuroscience.