Shahin G. Lashkari

Shahin Gharakozlou Lashkari

Ph.D. Student
Email
Office: 136 Hackerman Hall

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Academic History

• Ph.D. Student in Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
• M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA.
• M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.
• B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.

Awards

• Creel Family Teaching Assistant Award, 2020.

Publications

• M. S. Madhav, R. P. Jayakumar, S. G. Lashkari, F. Savelli, H. T. Blair, J. J. Knierim, and N. J. Cowan, “The Dome: a virtual reality apparatus for freely locomoting rodents,” J Neurosci Methods, vol. 368, p. 109336, 2022.
  [Bibtex]

  @article{madhavdome2022,
  author = {Manu S. Madhav and Ravikrishnan P. Jayakumar and Shahin G. Lashkari and Francescco Savelli
  and Hugh T. Blair and James J. Knierim and Noah J. Cowan},
  title = {The Dome: a virtual reality apparatus for freely locomoting rodents},
  journal = {J Neurosci Methods},
  volume = {368},
  pages = {109336},
  issn = {0165-0270},
  doi = {10.1016/j.jneumeth.2021.109336},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneumeth.2021.109336},
  year = 2022
  }

• S. G. Lashkari, “Place cells to path planning: A neural study of complex locomotor behaviors as an inspiration for robotics,” PhD Thesis, 2023.
  [Bibtex]

  @PHDTHESIS{lashkariplace2023,
  author = {Shahin Gharakozlou Lashkari},
  title = {Place cells to path planning: A neural study of complex locomotor behaviors as an inspiration for robotics},
  school = {Johns Hopkins University},
  year = 2023
  }

• S. G. Lashkari, B. M. Woronowicz, P. Ozel, M. Hathiyari, V. Puliyadi, J. J. Knierim, and N. J. Cowan, “Predictive firing of place cells before gap-crossing behaviors,” in The Society for Neuroscience, 2023.
  [Bibtex]

  @INPROCEEDINGS{lashkarisfn2023,
  author = {S. G. Lashkari and B. M. Woronowicz and P. Ozel and M. Hathiyari and V. Puliyadi and J. J. Knierim and N. J. Cowan},
  title = {Predictive firing of place cells before gap-crossing behaviors},
  booktitle = {The Society for Neuroscience},
  year = 2023,
  month = Nov,
  }

• S. G. Lashkari, B. M. Woronowicz, P. Ozel, B. Krishnan, J. J. Knierim, and N. J. Cowan, “Hippocampal place cell encoding during gap-crossing behaviors,” in The Society for Neuroscience, 2022.
  [Bibtex]

  @INPROCEEDINGS{lashkarisfn2022,
  author = {Lashkari, S. G. and Woronowicz, B. M. and Ozel, P. and Krishnan, B. and Knierim, J. J. and Cowan, N. J.},
  title = {Hippocampal place cell encoding during gap-crossing behaviors},
  booktitle = {The Society for Neuroscience},
  year = 2022,
  month = Nov,
  }

• B. Krishnan, G. Secer, F. Savelli, S. G. Lashkari, R. P. Jayakumar, K. Wright, N. J. Cowan, and J. J. Knierim, “Population Responses In Medial Entorhinal Cortex During Recalibration Of Path Integration Gain,” in The Society for Neuroscience, 2022.
  [Bibtex]

  @INPROCEEDINGS{krishnansfn2022,
  author = {Krishnan, B. and Secer, G. and Savelli, F. and Lashkari, S. G. and Jayakumar, R. P. and Wright, K. and Cowan, N. J. and Knierim, J. J.},
  title = {Population Responses In Medial Entorhinal Cortex During Recalibration Of Path Integration Gain},
  booktitle = {The Society for Neuroscience},
  year = 2022,
  month = Nov,
  }

• B. Krishnan, G. Secer, F. Savelli, S. G. Lashkari, N. J. Cowan, and J. J. Knierim, “Mechanisms Governing Modulation of Path-Integration Gain in the Medial Entorhinal Cortex,” in The Brain Initiative Meeting, 2022.
  [Bibtex]

  @INPROCEEDINGS{krishnanbrain2022,
  author = {Krishnan, B. and Secer, G. and Savelli, F. and Lashkari, S. G. and Cowan, N. J. and Knierim, J. J.},
  title = {Mechanisms Governing Modulation of Path-Integration Gain in the Medial Entorhinal Cortex},
  booktitle = {The Brain Initiative Meeting},
  year = 2022,
  month = Jun,
  }

• M. S. Madhav, R. P. Jayakumar, S. G. Lashkari, F. Savelli, N. J. Cowan, and J. J. Knierim, “Using augmented reality and a control theoretic approach to characterize computation of path integration in rodents,” in The Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL, USA, 2019.
  [Bibtex]

  @INPROCEEDINGS{madhavaugmented2019,
  author = {M. S. Madhav and R. P. Jayakumar and S. G. Lashkari
  and F. Savelli and N. J. Cowan and J. J. Knierim},
  title = {Using augmented reality and a control theoretic
  approach to characterize computation of path
  integration in rodents},
  booktitle = {The Society for Neuroscience},
  year = 2019,
  address = {Chicago, IL, USA},
  month = Oct
  }