Biography

Rajeev D. S. Raizada, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences

Dr. Raizada is a postdoctoral fellow working with Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl. Before coming to the Institute, he earned a Ph.D. in computational neuroscience at Boston University with Stephen Grossberg, and did postdoctoral training in fMRI at the MGH-NMR Center with Russ Poldrack. Dr. Raizada's research interests center around neural plasticity, with a view to eventually exploiting plasticity to remediate learning disabilities such as dyslexia. He is working with Dr. Kuhl on psychophysical and fMRI studies of plasticity in speech perception.