Vivek Hari Sridhar

Dr. Vivek Hari Sridhar is a post-doctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Konstanz, Germany, affiliated with the Department for the Ecology of Animal Societies. His research focuses on spatiotemporal computation in biological systems, particularly how individual neural interactions drive collective decision-making and movement patterns in animals.

Education

• Bachelors: Manipal Institute of Technology (2008–2012)
• Masters: Erasmus Mundus Masters Programme in Evolutionary Biology (2013–2015)
• PhD: International Max Planck Research Society for Organismal Biology/University of Konstanz (2015–2020)

Research Interests
Dr. Sridhar investigates how simple neural interactions scale to emergent group-level behaviors in animal collectives, using tools from computer vision, machine learning, statistical physics, and individual-based modeling. His work bridges the gap between individual decision-making and collective dynamics across evolutionary timescales.

Software Development
He is the primary developer of Tracktor, an open-source OpenCV-based object tracking software designed for analyzing animal behavior in diverse environments. The tool supports single- and multi-object tracking while maintaining identity, with applications in adaptive thresholding and spatiotemporal data extraction.