My Perspective

I was nominated for 'Open Research Award' 2024 from Newcastle University for my leading contribution in making 15+ software and 4+ datasets from Auditory Cognition Group as open source. The Open Research Awards recognises colleagues and students who have used open practices to make research more accessible, transparent or reproducible, and demonstrate an understanding of the aims of open research. Reference: [1] Open Research Award Winners -  https://www.ncl.ac.uk/library/academics-and-researchers/research/open-research/awards/

My gamification of Bhagavad Gita as a typing web app received an Honorary Mention in the category "Made You Learn" for the 2023 'Last year on Glitch' roundup awards by Glitch.com. This project aims to popularize Bhagavad Gita in the younger generation through gamification. Link to the award announcement:  https://glitch.com/discover My game was first featured in Glitch's monthly newsletter in Nov 23 linked below. https://blog.glitch.com/post/november-2023-on-glitch-challenges-and-self-reflections/ Link to the game:  https://gita-typing-game.glitch.me/

I won a prize for my photo submission entitled "Hollow Mask Illusion" under "the 'why' of shapes" category (adult level) in the "Maths Inside 2023" photo competition that aims to popularize scientific thinking in the general public. My submission discusses why people do not perceive the obverse side of a mask as a concave face but as a regular face instead. This illusion is robust in general and everyone can be surprised at this trick on the brain unless they suffer from Schizophrenia. Here is my winning photo and the caption. This image shows the obverse side of a mask that has been painted to showcase a face. When people see the reverse side of a mask, they are usually unable to perceive it as concave or a hollow face, but instead see a convex regular face as seen in this image. This illusion is a classic example of how brain uses its top-down expectations to shape visual perception. The "Predictive coding account of perceptual inference...