IIT Madras centre to map human brain, train students in brain data

NEW DELHI: The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras has established the Sudha Gopalakrishnan Brain Centre with the objective to map the human brain with a focus on high-resolution brain imaging. The IIT Madras brain centre aims to train its students in neuroscience and computing, machine learning techniques on brain data, said a statement from IIT Madras.

The centre was inaugurated today, March 19, 2022. During the occasion, professor K Vijay Raghavan, principal scientific adviser to the government of India, also inaugurated the AquaMAP centre for water management and policy at the IIT Madras campus.

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According to the statement, the brain centre at the IIT Madras campus aims to undertake a global project to map the human brain at the cellular and connectivity levels and to establish itself as a research centre that produces the human brain data, scientific output and technology tools. Kris Gopalakrishnan, an alumnus of IIT Madras, and Sudha Gopalakrishnan are providing support to the IIT Madras brain centre.

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“The combination of IIT Madras, which has the expertise in science and data analysis, with medicine is going to be revolutionary. Going forward, we have an extraordinary problem in Neuroscience, i.e. on the functioning of human brain. We are at an earlier stage in our understanding of the human brain functioning. The IIT Madras brain centre will help in solving complex issues that will benefit the world,” said Raghavan.