Dr. Vivek Hari Sridhar

I am a post-doctoral researcher with Dr. Ariana Strandburg-Peshkin in the Department for the Ecology of Animal Societies, at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior. My interests lie in understanding fundamental principles that govern spatiotemporal computation in biological systems. More specifically, how individual decision-making in complex real world scenarios emerges from relatively simple neural interactions, and how these decisions in-turn affect movement, information processing, leadership, and decision making in animal groups. 

To do this, I use state-of-the-art techniques in computer vision and machine learning for data pre-processing and analysis. By taking inspiration from statistical physics and combining this with mathematical models and individual based simulations, I hope to elucidate the link between the individual and the group at both generational and evolutionary timescales.