Varun Kumar

NIH SCHOLAR

I work as a PhD research scholar in the field of Neuroimaging in School of IT at Indian Institute of Information Technology Delhi, India. I am developing computational methods for diagnosing Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) using fMRI brain scans. Sometimes a behavioral assessment of the ASD symptoms fail to detect ASD subjects in the fringe of the spectrum. ASD subjects with mild impairments are susceptible of a misdiagnoses or a late diagnosis. That is why a computational model, that is completely driven by fMRI scan to assist doctors is highly needed. I am quite interested in music. In my free time I love playing Harmonica.