About Me

Kohitij Kar is currently a Postdoctoral Associate in the DiCarlo Lab at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT. He completed his Ph.D. in the Department of Behavioral and Neural Sciences at Rutgers University in New Jersey (PhD advisor: Bart Krekelberg) in 2015. His current research work is primarily focussed towards using a variety of experimental and computational techniques to build better models of primate visual cognition.

Sub-Disciplines

Primate visual intelligence, primate in-vivo neurophysiology, visual object recognition, artificial intelligence, deep neural networks, visual cognition, chemogenetic perturbation

Research Areas