Curriculum Vitae

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

Educational Background

Ph.D., Boston University, Cognitive & Neural Systems (2000)

M.Sc., University of Birmingham, England, Cognitive Science (1995).

B.A., University of Oxford, England, Mathematics & Philosophy (1994)

Research Interests

• Visual perceptual learning
• Reading and dyslexia
• Speech perception
• Audio-visual cross-modal processing

Professional Experience

Postdoctoral Fellow, 2003-present.
University of Washington (Seattle), Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences.

Postdoctoral Trainee, 2000-2003.
Massachusetts General Hospital-Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Center (Charlestown, MA), Cognitive Neuroscience.

Performed fMRI scans and psychophysical testing of dyslexic and normal children, ages 7-14.

Voluntary work in a residential school for disabled children in Überlingen, Germany, 1995-1996. Responsible for day-to-day care, activities, and supervision of three boys, ages 8 to 14, two of whom were autistic, one epileptic with "frontal-lobe"-esque behavioral difficulties. 1995-1996.

Teaching Experience

Trainer, Mentor, Massachusetts General Hospital-Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Center, 2002. Basics of SPM and Matlab, use of MRI scanner, psychophysical testing.

Guest lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 2002. MIT Course HST583: Matlab for fMRI: convolution, design matrices and image display.

Guest lecturer, Boston University (BU), 2002. BU Course CNS510: Neurobiological evidence for adaptive resonance theory mechanisms.

Grants

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NINDS R21 1NS4333-02 (2002-2004): Cholinergic enhancement of human cortical plasticity

National Science Foundation, NSF 0121950 Cognitive Neuroscience Pilot Grant (2001-2002): Enhancing human cortical plasticity: Visual psychophysics and fMRI

Janssen Research Foundation Research Grant (2002-3): Cholinergic enhancement of perceptual learning

McDonnell-Pew Program in Cognitive Neuroscience, Postdoctoral Fellowship (2000-2003): Cross-modal processing and its relations to dyslexia: Psychophysics, fMRI, and neurophysiology

International Dyslexia Association, General Grant Award (2001-2002): Magnetic resonance imaging of cross-modal processing in dyslexia

Research projects

• Cholinergic enhancement of human perceptual learning: fMRI and psychophysics
• Event-related fMRI of audio-visual simultaneity detection
• Audio-visual processing in dyslexic children: fMRI and psychophysics
• Adaptation-fMRI of categorical processing of speech

Referee Duties

• Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
• Neural Networks
• National Science Foundation

Professional Memberships

• Society for Neuroscience
• Cognitive Neuroscience Society

Awards

Presidential University Graduate Fellowship, Boston University, 1996-2000
Radcliffe Prize, Faculty of Science, University of Birmingham, England, 1995