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Education
1. PhD, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), Klosterneuburg
September 2024 - Present
2. BS-MS in Biology, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune
August 2019 - May 2024
CGPA: 8.7
3. High School, R.V. P.U. College, Bangalore
May 2017 - May 2019
Percentage: 92.7
Master’s Thesis
Automated Tracking of Behavioural Synchrony in Cooperating Marmosets
With Prof. Judith Burkart and Nikhil Phaniraj, Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Zurich
Establishing an automated 3D pose-tracking pipeline to study gaze following, interpersonal behavioural synchrony and posture imitation in common marmosets using DeepLabCut.
Talks and Poster Presentations
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Kulkarni, V. Cremer, S. Gokhale, C. S. A Diffusion-Removal Framework for Disease Dynamics on Multilayer Ant Colony Networks. Complex Networks Conference, Zaragoza, Spain. May 2026
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Kulkarni, V. Phaniraj, N. Burkart, J. Automated Tracking of Behavioural Synchrony in Common Marmosets. Gesellschaft fur Primatologie (GfP) Conference, Konstanz, Germany. March 2024
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Kulkarni, V. Phaniraj, N. Burkart, J. Behavioural Synchrony in Common Marmosets. Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology (UZH) Symposium talk, Zurich, Switzerland. Nov 2023
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Kulkarni, V. Rajan, R. Reinforcement-induced Reduction of number of Introductory Notes. IISER Pune Biology Undergraduate Poster Session, Pune, India. April 2023
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Kulkarni, V. T. S. Nandu, Rajan, R. Comparative Analysis of Introductory Notes across Four Estrildid bird species. IISER Pune Biology Undergraduate Poster Session, Pune, India. Nov 2022
Teaching
Introduction to Evolutionary Biology (Fall 2025)
Teaching Assistant for the course taught by Prof. Beatriz Vicoso and Prof. Sylvia Cremer
Relevant Coursework
Konstanz School of Collective Behaviour (July 2025)
Over three weeks, students explore collective behaviour with lectures, hands-on tutorials, and projects at the Centre for Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour (CASCB) and Max Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour in Kontanz.
Biology
Animal Behaviour, Neurobiology I, Evolution, Ecology I and II, Animal Physiology I and II, Chemical Ecology, Mathematical and Computational Biology, Statistics for Life Scientists, Physiology, Genetics, Cell Biology, Biology of Systems
Data Science
Data Analysis, Bioinformatics, Introduction to Statistical Learning, Generalized Linear Models and their Applications
Mathematics
Multivariable Calculus, Linear Algebra, Introduction to Probability and Statistics
Humanities
History of Science, Science and Society, Political Ecology, Political Thought in India, Disasters and Society, Diseases and Discourse, Contemporary Stories from the Subcontinent
Scholarships and Awards
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A H Schultz Grant (16,100 CHF) - A support grant from the A H Schultz Foundation for my master’s thesis at the University of Zurich (2023-24)
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KVPY Fellow (≈ 5,600 USD) - Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojna (Young Scientist Encouragement Program), 2019 - 2024, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India