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new papers, talks and happenings of the nairlab
[Sept 11 2026] Dr. Nair gave an invited talk at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Chinese Neuroscience Society in Fuzhou.
[September 9 2026] Dr. Nair has been recognized as one of MIT Tech Reviews Innovators under 35 for 2026 for his work on understanding emotion states.
[September 3 2026] Dr. Nair has been awarded the 2026 Asian Young Scientist Fellowship! This gives the lab new resources to tackle ambitious questions about affect and emotion.
[Sept 3 2026] Dr. Nair was invited to speak at the International Brain Initiative Meeting on the Emotional Brain in Daegu, South Korea, held at the Korea Brain Research Institute.
[August 20206] Our new workstations, equipped with the RTX6000 Blackwell GPUs just arrived!
[July 8 2026] The lab published our latest review on neural manifold dynamics underlying affect in the Annual Reviews of Neuroscience!
[July 22 2026] Dr. Nair was invited to speak and lecture at the 2026 Neuro-Inspired Computation Summer Course organized by the University of Tokyo and the International Research Center for Neurointelligence (IRCN).
[April 21 2026] Dr. Nair was invited to give a talk at the Conference on Aging and AI at Tsinghua University.
[Feb 25 2026] Pushkar presents our latest AI platform at the Annual LKCMedicine Neuroscience Symposium.
[Dec 3 2025] The lab published our first review on the neural computation of affective internal states in Neuron!
[October 27 2025] Dr Nair has been recognized as one of three awardees of the Chen Institute and Science Prize for AI-Accelerated Research for this work on affect. He gave an invited talk at AIAS 2025 in San Francisco. Read his article in Science to know more about the labs work!