bikalpaghimire
Neuroscientist studying perceptual organization and cortico-cortical interaction for stable visual perception.
Department of Neuroscience
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Welcome!
I am a Postdoctoral Associate working in Xin Huang’s lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I received my Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in October 2025, where I conducted my doctoral research in the lab of Xin Huang. Scientifically, I am interested in the neural mechanisms underlying visual perception and communication between cortical areas.
Born and raised in Nepal, I moved to the United States for my undergraduate studies. I earned my B.A. in Mathematics and Biology from Minot State University in North Dakota. My early research experience involved working with Dr. Zeni Shabani, Dr. Heidi Super, and Dr. Bishnu Sedai in the fields of behavioral/pharmacological neuroscience, cancer biology, and theoretical mathematics, respectively.
news
| Dec 10, 2025 | Psychophysics work from my thesis titled “Critical spatial separation at the scale of V1 receptive fields determines motion segmentation” is now out in bioRxiv! |
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| Nov 19, 2025 | Presented a talk titled “The primary visual cortex plays a crucial role in motion transparency” at the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) 2025 in a Nanosymposium organized by Dr. Carlos Ponce. |
| Oct 15, 2025 | Deposited my thesis to ProQuest. |
| Sep 29, 2025 | Collaboration paper titled “Mechanisms of Neural Representation and Segregation of Multiple Spatially Separated Visual Stimuli” is now out in bioRxiv! |
| Sep 26, 2025 | Successfully defended my doctoral thesis titled “Mechanistic investigation of motion segmentation”! |