Mukesh Dhamala
Curriculum vitae

updated: 5/20/2013

Office Address

Department of Physics & Astronomy, Georgia State University
        25 Park Place,  Room 605,   Atlanta, GA 30303

+1 (404) 413 - 4063, +1 (404) 413 - 6025 (Fax)

mdhamala@gsu.edu, http://www.physics.gsu.edu/

Education

• Ph.D. in Physics, April 2000, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA
• M.S. in Computational Physics (Honors), June 1999, University of Kansas, Lawrence
• M.S. in Physics, 1994, Tribhuvan University, Nepal
• B.S. in Physics, 1991, Tribhuvan University, Nepal

Academic Appointments

• Associate Professor, 2013 - present, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Georgia State University (GSU), Atlanta, Georgia, USA
  
• Assistant Professor, 2007 - 2013, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Georgia State University (GSU), Atlanta, Georgia, USA

• Research assistant scientist, November 2004 – June 2007, Department of Biomedical Engineering , University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
• Postdoctoral Research Associate/Adjunct Teaching Faculty Member, August 2002 - September 2004, Center for Complex Systems & Brain Sciences/Physics Department, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida

• Postdoctoral Fellow, May 2000 - July 2002, Georgia Institute of Technology School of Physics & Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia

• Visiting Research Assistant, August 1999 - May 2000, Department of Mathematics and Center for Systems Science and Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona

• Research Assistant, January 1998 - July 1999, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas, Lawrence
• Research Assistant, Summer 1997, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas, Lawrence

• Head Teaching Assistant, August 1997 - 1998, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas, Lawrence
• Teaching Assistant, August 1996 - 1997, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas, Lawrence

• Asst. Lecturer, July 1994 - July 1996, Physics Department, Institute of Engineering, Tribhuvan University, Nepal

Award, Honor and Recognition

• National Science Foundation Faculty Career Award, 2010
  
• Biography Included in Marquis Who’s Who in America, 2010
• M.S. in Computational Physics with Honors, 1999
• Member, Physics Honor Society ΣΠΣ, inducted 1998

Professional Membership

• Society for Neuroscience, American Physical Society, Human Brain Mapping

Research Focus

• Experimental Biophysics/Neuroscience

- Neuroimaging (fMRI and EEG) of human cognition and perception

- Development of near-infrared spectroscopy based brain imaging system

• Theoretical Biophysics/Neuroscience

- Modeling of brain processes, and neurons and networks

- Development of signal processing techniques for brain activity time series data

Grant Support

 Active

• Agency: National Science Foundation

Title: Career: Brain Network Activity During Perceptual Decision-Making (PI: Dhamala)

Duration: 9/15/2010 - 8/31/2015

• GSU Brains and Behavior Seed Grant (2011 - 2012) (PI: Dhamala)

Duration: 7/01/2011 - 6/30/2012

 Previous

• Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs

Title: Simultaneous EEG-fMRI studies (PI: Dhamala)

Duration: 10/01/ 2008 - 9/31/2011

• GT/GSU Advanced Brain Imaging Center Faculty Seed Grant (2010 - 2011)

• GSU Brains and Behavior Seed Grant (2009 - 2010) (PI: Dhamala, co-PI: Perera)
• GSU Research Initiation Grant (2008 - 2009) (PI: M. Dhamala)
• GSU Brains and Behavior Seed Grant (2008 – 2009) (PI: M. Dhamala, co-PI: S. Brosnan)

Mentoring & Advising or co-Advising

• Bhim Adhikari, 2007 – present, Graduate Student, Department of Physics & Astronomy, GSU
• Bidhan Lamichhane, 2008 – present, Graduate Student, Department of Physics & Astronomy
• Sahil Bajaj, 2009 – present, Graduate Student, Department of Physics & Astronomy
• Ganesh Chand, 2011 - present, Graduate Student, Department of Physics & Astronomy
• Ellen Wooten, 2011 - present, Graduate Student, Department of Physics & Astronomy
• Greggory Rothmeier, 2009 – present, Graduate Student, Department of Physics & Astronomy (co-advising with Dr. Unil Perera)
• Ryan Szczech, 2011- 2012, Undergraduate Student, Biology Major.
• Kristen Quinn, 2009, 2011, Undergraduate Student, ION Program, CBN, GSU/Emory
• Eli Goshorn, 2010, Undergraduate Student, Brain Fellow, CBN, GSU/Emory
  

Masters and PhD Committees

• PhD in physics: Neranjan S. Edirisinghe (2010), Tatiana Malaschenko (2011)
  

• Masters in physics: Neranjan S. Edirisinghe (2008), William Barnett (2009), B. Adhikari (2011)
  
• Masters in mathematics: Mathew Brooks (2009), Paul Channell (2009)
• PhD in physics (ongoing): A. Acharya, B. Adhikari, S. Bajaj, B. Lamichhane, G. Chand, E. Wooten, A. N. Rmanayaka.
  

Courses Taught/ Developed

• Taught/Teaching: Physics 1112 (year 2008, 2010), Physics 2212 (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012)
• Designed and Taught (Fall 2011): Phys 4710/6710: Functional Neuroimaging

Journal Editorial Board Member

• Webmed Central Plus (2012 - present) - Managing editor
• Open Journal of Medical Imaging (2011 - present)
• Medical Imaging and Computational Biosimulation (2011 - present)

Manuscript Reviewer

1. Behavioral and Brain Functions

2. Biological Cybernetics

3. Biomed Central: Neuroinformatics

4. Biomed Central: Systems Biology

5. Brain, Behavior and Evolution

6. Brain Research

7. Chaos: an interdisciplinary journal of nonlinear science

8. Chaos, Solitons and Fractals

9. Cognitive Neurodynamics

10. Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulations

11. Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine

12. Computational Neuroscience Conference Proceedings

13. Computational Neuroscience Society

14. Europhysics Letters

15. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

16. Human Brain Mapping Conference Abstracts

17. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

18. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

19. Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering

20. International Journal of Neural Systems

21. Journal of Biological Physics

22. Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology

23. Journal of Neurophysiology

24. Journal of Neuroscience

25. Journal of Physics A

26. Human Brain Mapping

27. Math Problems in Engineering

28. Neural Networks

29. Neurocomputing

30. NeuroImage

31. Nonlinear Dynamics

32. Open Journal of Medical Imaging

33. Philosophical Transactions of the royal society A

34. Physica A

35. Physica D

36. Physics Letters A

37. Physical Review E

38. Physical Review Letters

39. PLOS one

40. Webmed Central Plus

Grant Reviewer

• NSF proposals
• International Science and Technology Center (Moscow) proposals for the US Department of State
  

Professional Service

• GSU Brains and Behavior Interdisciplinary Committee Member (2011 - 2013)
• Committee member, GSU/GaTech Advanced Brain Imaging IRB, Feb 2009 - Jan 2012
• Co-organizer and Session Chair, Dynamics of Bursting Neurons, Atlanta, 2010
• Session Chair, Computational Biophysics, SESAPS meeting, Atlanta, 2009
• The Georgia Science Olympiad Regional Tournaments, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
• Physics Fun camp for high school students in Georgia, 2009
• Judge, South Nerve Net Conference Poster Competition, 2008
• Biophysics Program Committee member, Physics & Astronomy, GSU, 2007- present

Publications (please see from the link below)

• http://www.physics.gsu.edu/dhamala/Publications_Dhamala.html

Presentations

Invited Talks

• Bio-Imaging Research Center, University of Georgia, Athens, Feb 24, 2012.
• Department of Physics, Mahendra Morang Campus, Tribhuvan University, Nepal, Dec 22, 2011.
• Greenland International College, Biratnagar, Nepal, Dec 20, 2011.
• Central Department of Physics, Tribhuvan University, Nepal, Dec 13, 2011.
• Gateway to Physics Class Tour to GSU/GaTech Center for Advanced Brain Imaging, Atlanta, Nov 7, 2011.
  
• Computational Biology Seminar, Department of Biology, Emory University, November 5, 2010.
• Dynamics of Bursting Neurons, Atlanta, April 17, 2010.
• Department of Physics, Florida International University, Florida, October 24, 2008.

• Atlanta Computational Neuroscience Workshop, GSU, Atlanta, April 8, 2008.
• Connectivity Seminar, Emory University, Atlanta, April 6, 2008.
• Department of Physics, Florida Atlantic University, Florida, USA, February 21, 2008.
• School of Physics, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, February 8, 2008.
• Brains and Behavior Annual Retreat, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, June 12, 2007.
• DIMACS Workshop on Data Mining, Systems Analysis, and Optimization in Neuroscience, UF, Gainesville, FL, Feb 15, 2007.
• Department of Physics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, Feb 20, 2007.
• Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, Feb 6, 2007.
• Department of Physics, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, Jan 28, 2007.
• Department of Biomedical Engineering, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, Sept 12, 2006.
• Quantitative Neuroscience/ Neural Engineering Seminar, Biomedical Engineering, UF, Gainesville, FL, March 7, 2006.
• DIMACS Workshop on Data Mining, Systems Analysis, and Optimization in Neuroscience, UF, Gainesville, FL, Feb 15-17, 2006.
• Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Feb 13, 2006.
• Department of Physics, Florida Atlantic University, Dec 5, 2003.

Contributed Talks and Posters

• Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Washington DC, Nov 12 - 16, 2011.
• Gordon Conference on Cerebellum in Health and Disease, Aug 21 - 26, 2011.
• Computational Neuroscience Meeting, Stockholm, Sweden, July 23-28, 2011.
• Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting, Quebec City, Canada, June 26-30, 2011.
• American Clinical Neurophysiology Society Annual Meeting and Courses, New Orleans, Feb 1-6, 2011.
  
• Society of Neuroscience Annual Meeting, San Diego, Nov 15, 2010.
• South East Nerve Net, Atlanta, March 7, 2010.
• Statistical Analysis of Neuronal Data, Pittsburgh, May 22, 2010.
• SESAPS Meeting, Atlanta, Nov 14, 2009.
• The Spineless Neuroscience Forum, GSU, April 10, 2009.
• NIBBL, Neuroscience Institute, GSU, March 11, 2009.
• Conference on Nonlinear Wave Physics, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, July 20, 2008.
• American Physical Society March Meeting, New Orleans, March 14, 2008.
• Applied Mathematics and Neuroscience Seminar, Mathematics, GSU, March 7, 2008.

• Society for Neuroscience Conference 2007, San Diego, Nov 3-7, 2007.
• Society for Neuroscience Conference 2006, Atlanta, Oct 14-18, 2006.
• Society for Neuroscience Conference 2005, Washington DC, Nov 12-16, 2005.
• Dynamics Days 2004, North Carolina, January 2-5, 2004.
• Dynamics Days 2003, Arizona, January 8-11, 2003.
• Dynamical Neuroscience, Orlando, November 1-2, 2002.
• CCBS, Florida Atlantic University, October 18, 2002.
• Coordination dynamics 2002, Florida, May 9-13, 2002.
• Nonlinear Science Seminar, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, December 3, 2001.
• Dynamical Neuroscience, San Diego, November 9-10, 2001.
• Dynamics Days 2001, North Carolina, January 3 - 6, 2001.
• Nonlinear Science Seminar, Arizona State University, November, 1999.
• The Fifth SIAM Conference on Dynamical Systems, Snowbird, Utah, May 22-27, 1999.
• Physics Seminar, University of Kansas, December, 1998.
• D0 Preshower Detector Software Meeting, Fermi Lab, Chicago, June, 1997.

Research Publicity

• Chaos Journal Highlight, June 2011
  
• Journal of Biological Physics Research (June 2011, May 2010, October 2009, Dec 2009, Jan and Feb 2004, April 2002)
• GSU College of Arts and Sciences News (Jan 2008)
• Complexity Digest (Jan 2004, Oct 2003)
• The Journal of Neuroscience Editorial (Sept 2003) 
• Nature News (March 2002)