Employment
• 28/04/09-31/06/09 Responsible for translation in the medical field from English to Hindi with GlobaLink, Canada
• 01/04/2007-31/12/2007 Responsible for translating neuropsychological tests from English to Hindi with GlobaLink, Canada

Education
2006-2008 Graduate (Research) Level Courses taken: statistics, attention
Centre for Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences (CBCS), University of Allahabad

2004-2006 M.A. Cognitive Science, CGPA= 8.79/9.
Centre for Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences, University of Allahabad.
The major subjects included were: perception, cognition, learning & memory, research methodology, programming with C, C++, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, cognitive neuropsychology & psycholinguistics, cognitive disorders, attention, computational models of cognition and cognitive neuroscience.

2001-2004 B.A. (HONS) Psychology,
Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University

Result: 61% (First Division)
The major subjects included were: abnormal, developmental and physiological psychology, statistics & research methods, psychological testing and experimental psychology.

2000-2001 Certificate course on web designing,
Institute of Psychological and Educational Measurement (IPEM),
Allahabad.

TOEFL (taken on: 29/11/2005)
Total = 263/300
Listening = 25
Structure/writing = 29
Reading = 25
Essay rating = 6.0

Honors & Awards
Research Recognition Honor
• 2008 Nominated (for significant contributions in research) for Marquis Who’s Who in the World 2009 (26th Edition)

Research Grant
• 2009-2011 Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Grant managed through Graduate School CITEC for PhD for “Perceptual Grounding of Spatial Frames of Reference in Communication and Action”

Scholarship
• Merit Based Scholarship at CBCS

Travel Awards
• 2008 IMFAR developing countries award to attend the 7th International Meeting for Autism Research at London, UK
• 2008-SRAD Scholarship to attend the 2008 Adult Development Symposium at USA
• 2007-Travel Award from the Melvin Yahr International Parkinson’s Disease Foundation to attend the XVII WFN World Congress on Parkinson’ Disease and Related Disorders at Amsterdam
• 2007-Travel Grant by the Research-Fellowship Programme of the European Academy to attend the summer school on “The Impact of Current Developments in the Neurosciences on the concept of Psychiatric Disease” at Bonn, Germany
• 2007-IBRO Travel Grant to attend the “IBRO-APRC School of Neuroscience on Neuroinformatics” at the Howard Florey Institute, Melbourne, Australia
• 2007- IMFAR developing countries award to attend the 6th International Meeting for Autism Research at Seattle, USA
• 2007-International Brain Research Organization (IBRO) Travel Grant to attend the 35th annual Meeting of the INS
• 2006-Vivian Smith Advanced Studies Institute Fellowship of the International
Neuropsychological Society, Xylocastro, Greece

Academic Visit
• 2008-Centre of Excellence-Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC), Bielefeld University, Germany
• 2008-Marketing Research Innovation Centre (MRIC), Faculty of Commerce, University of Wollongong, Australia
• 2008-Institute of Work, Health & Organizations, The University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus.

Editorial/Review Experience
• Editorial board member for The New School Psychology Bulletin
• Peer reviewer for the book, “Ethics and Game Design: Teaching Values through Play” published by IGI Global
• Reviewer for Journal of Social and Psychological Sciences
• Reviewer for first Neurobiology of Language Conference (NLC 2009) USA
• Peer-reviewer for Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment Journal (6 Papers)

Teaching Experience
• 1/08/2007-15/12/07 Teaching Assistant for “Introduction to Cognition” (Master’s course)
• 1/09/2006-1/11/06 Teaching Assistant for “Auditory Attention” & “Cognitive Disorders” (Master’s course)

Research Projects
• 2009-2011 Perceptual Grounding of Spatial Frames of Reference in Communication and Action (PhD)
• 2007 Translation of the “Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ)” by Gross & John from English to Hindi for the purpose of assessing emotion regulation in the Hindi speaking population
• 2006 Translation of the “Inventory of Callous and Unemotional traits (ICU)” by Paul Frick from English to Hindi for the purpose of identifying psychopathy in India
• 2006-2007 Rehabilitation of attention and emotion recognition deficits in an autistic child and an ADHD child
• 2004-2008 Interaction of attention and emotion
• 2004-2006 Investigation of Development of Attentional Mechanisms and Working Memory in normal children (Master’s Thesis)

Workshops and Courses
• “The Impact of Current Developments in the Neurosciences on the concept of Psychiatric Disease” at Bonn, Germany (October, 2007)
• “IBRO-APRC School of Neuroscience” at Melbourne, Australia (July, 2007)
• “Training Attention in Children” by Michael Posner at INS, Portland, USA (February, 2007)
• “What is the role of Frontal Lobe in Cognition?” by Mark D’Esposito at INS, Portland, USA (February, 2007)
• “Workshop on Methods in Cognitive Neuroscience” at CBCS, Allahabad, India (April, 2006)

Skills and Abilities
1. Designing Behavioural Experiments using software like DirectRT
2. Statistical Analysis and Experimental Design (SPSS, etc)
3. Cognitive Neuropsychology Assessment
4. Cognitive Electrophysiological Experimentation (EEG/ERP)
5. Basics of Computer Programming (C, C++)
6. Cognitive Rehabilitation
7. Basics of Neuroinformatics