Suraj Honnuraiah, PhD

Position:
Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Email:
suraj_honnuraiah@hms.harvard.edu 

Education and Training:

• 2023-present: Research Scientist, Gord Fishell lab, Harvard Medical School, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT.

• 2021-2022: Collaborateur scientifique, Carl Petersen lab, EPFL, Switzerland.

• 2016-2021: PhD in Neuroscience: Biophysics of visual cortical neurons, Greg Stuart lab, Eccles Institute of Neuroscience, ANU. Australia.

• 2013-2015: Research Fellow, Rodney Douglas lab, Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETH/UZH Zurich.

• 2012-2014: M.S in Neural Systems and Computation, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

• 2010-2012: Research Assistant, Rishikesh Narayanan lab, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

• 2006-2010: B.E in Electrical Engineering, RVCE, VTU, India.

Research Focus:
I am trained as an electronic circuit design engineer but moved towards neuroscience. Most of my early days were spent on building computational models of V1 and implementing them on neuromorphic hardware with Rodney Douglas at ETH Zurich. But later decided to switch to experimental neuroscience and moved to Australia for my PhD with Greg Stuart where I investigated cellular and circuit mechanisms of binocular signal processing in the rodent visual cortex. 

I am primarily interested in understanding the nature of cortical computation (at Marr's level) and over the past decade, I have been on this pursuit to identify the common circuit motifs in primary sensory cortices that implement these computations by combining computational, neuromorphic and electrophysiology approaches. I recently moved to Fishell lab to pursue this problem from a developmental approach to better understand the organizational logic of these circuit motifs and the role of different interneurons subtypes in canonical cortical computation.