CV

Academic CV

Email diyabasrai@gmail.com
Summary Neuroscience PhD student interested in the neural basis of movement through experimental and computational approaches

Education

  • 2022-present
    PhD student, Interdepartmental Neuroscience
    Northwestern University
  • 2015-2019
    B.S., magna cum laude, Physiology and Neuroscience
    University of California, San Diego

Research Experience

  • 2022-present
    PhD Student, Miri & Glaser labs (2022-Present)
    Northwestern University
    • Examining thalamocortical interactions underlying naturalistic movement
  • 2020-2022
    Research Tech, Tresch Lab
    • Applying brain-machine interfaces to restore walking in rats with spinal cord injury
  • 2018-2020
    Undergrad Researcher, Systems Neural Engineering Lab
    • Created the autoLFADS tutorial, explaining how to use a custom deep learning tool to analyze neural activity data.

Research

  • Diya Basrai, ..., Andrew Miri, Joshua Glaser. (2025) Constraining inference of across-region interactions using neural activity perturbations, BioRxiv Under review at Nature Neuroscience