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Dr Pallavi Kaushik
Research Member of Common Room
Postdoctoral Researcher
Nuffield Department of Population Health
Pallavi Kaushik is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford. Her research focuses on understanding the biological and environmental factors that influence individual differences in aging and the risk to develop dementia using data from the UK Biobank and machine learning.
Pallavi received a double PhD in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science Engineering from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, and the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India, respectively. Her doctoral research focused on identifying neurophysiological biomarkers, predicting vulnerability to depression, modelling attention and cognitive states, and exploring sociodemographic influences, aiming to enable early detection and inform potential clinical applications. This work was carried out in close collaboration with cognitive neuroscientists, radiologists, and psychologists, using EEG and fMRI data.