Krishna Jayant is an assistant professor at Purdue University’s Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering. His laboratory’s research focuses on delivering biophysically based accounts of behaviorally relevant computations using novel electrical and optical neurotechnologies. Projects in the lab cover various topics, including the examination of synaptic and dendritic computations in individual neurons, as well as network-wide circuit computations that underlie sensorimotor integration, including synucleinopathies. Dr. Jayant completed his graduate training in electrical and computer engineering at Cornell University, where he worked with Dr. Edwin Kan on bioelectronics. He subsequently completed postdoctoral training at Columbia University with Dr. Rafael Yuste, Dr. Ken Shepard, and Dr. Ozgur Sahin, researching cutting-edge neurotechnologies to probe synaptic and dendritic biophysics. In addition to the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, Dr. Jayant has been recognized as an NIH NIBIB Trailblazer awardee, a Human Frontiers Science Young Investigator grant awardee, a Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award, and is also a recipient of an Air Force Office of Scientific Research DURIP award.