Gopikrishna Deshpande

Gopikrishna Deshpande is a Professor in Auburn University's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, holding adjunct roles in Psychology and international visiting professorships at institutions like NIMHANS and IIT Hyderabad. He specializes in neuroimaging and computational neuroscience with a focus on multimodal data fusion, machine learning applications in brain disorders, and canine neuroscience. His research bridges engineering, psychology, and medicine.

• Education: Ph.D. (Medical Imaging, Georgia Tech), M.S. (IISc Bangalore), B.Tech (NIT Warangal)
• Affiliations: Alabama Advanced Imaging Consortium, Center for Neuroscience, Center for Health Equity Research

Research Interests: Includes fMRI methodological innovations (7T imaging, layer-specific analysis), clinical applications in Alzheimer’s/PTSD, yoga neuroscience, and cross-species social cognition (dogs vs. robots). His work emphasizes translational neuroimaging for mental health diagnostics.

Publications: Over 150 peer-reviewed articles spanning neuroimaging techniques, machine learning models for diagnosis, and studies on hemodynamic response variability. Recent work focuses on canine brain networks and human-animal interaction.

• Awards: Health 2.0 Leadership Award (2024), OHBM Merit Award (2017), ISMRM Summa Cum Laude (2013-2017)
• Grants/Teams: Leads NIH-funded projects on neuroimaging biomarkers and collaborates internationally on yoga/meditation studies. Developed MALINI toolbox for clinical diagnostics.

Labs/Teams: Directs Auburn's neuroimaging research group with focus on ultra-high field MRI and interdisciplinary collaborations between engineering, psychology, and veterinary sciences.