Anirudh earned his Ph.D. in Cognitive Science, as well as an M.S. in Statistics, from the University of California, Irvine, and a B.E. in Computer Science from BITS Pilani. Anirudh’s academic focus has been on understanding the neural mechanisms behind cognitive processes, with a particular interest in the dynamics and constraints of neural population activity. His research has focused on the investigation of brain rhythms, cross-frequency coupling, real-time analysis, and functional networks. In the Chu lab, Anirudh focuses on analyzing the influence of sleep brain rhythms on memory and the dysfunction of sleep brain rhythms in epilepsy.