I am the Nanyang Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. I am also a Principal Investigator at the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, A*STAR Singapore.

I obtained my Ph.D. at Caltech in the Computation and Neural Systems graduate program under David J. Anderson in 2024, and completed my postdoctoral training at Stanford and Caltech under Scott Linderman, Pietro Perona, and David J. Anderson in 2025.

My work integrates data-driven machine learning with high-throughput neural recordings to understand how emotional states are instantiated in neural circuits. My graduate research uncovered a new emergent network computation in the hypothalamus, called a line attractor, that encodes a persistent state of aggression (Nair et al., Cell 2023). In my postdoctoral work, I dissected the mechanisms by which networks of neurons generate persistent signals underlying affect, while also developing new tools to help scientists analyze complex neural and behavioral datasets (Vinograd*, Nair* et al., Nature 2024, Liu, Nair* et al., Nature 2024).