Shayok "Shay" Dutta, PhD
I'm just an investment the world is going to underestimate
Shay is currently a post-doctoral fellow
in the Department of Neurosurgery at University
of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in the
BIOElectrics lab under the direction of Dr.
Cristin Welle. He ultimately aims to study VNS and
it's applications in cognitive flexibility and
mental health in both pre-clinical and clinical
models.
During his PhD, Shay mastered the ability to
talk about himself in the third person and
worked under guidance of Dr. Caleb Kemere in
the Realtime Neural Engineering Lab at Rice
University where he was trained up as a rodent
hippocampal electrophysiologist while coming from
a Electrical and Computer Engineering background.
His work was in interrogating hippocampal sharp-wave
ripples in realtime within a object recognition
task leading to novel insights (in prep.). See
Research and Publications & Posters sections.
Outside of work, Shay enjoys cuddling his two
big bun buns while they actively try to escape
his smothering love. He is also very active being
a former athlete and enjoys cuddling other animals
ranging from cows (moo!) to dogs (bork!) as well!
His niece, who is a cat, seems to enjoy sitting
on his lap while he makes a website. Shay also often
times stares into the existential void. See About
Me section for more.
