Mriganka Sur

For the Indian politician, see Mriganka Mohan Sur.

Mriganka Sur (born 1953 in Fatehgarh, India) is an Indian neuroscientist. He is the Newton Professor of Neuroscience and Director of the Simons Center for the Social Brain at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.^[1][2] He is also a visiting faculty member in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras and N.R. Narayana Murthy Distinguished Chair in Computational Brain Research at the Centre for Computational Brain Research, IIT Madras.^[3][4] He was on the Life Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize in 2010 and has been serving as jury chair from 2018.^[5]

Mriganka Sur
Born	1953 (age 71–72) Fatehgarh, India
Nationality	Indian
Occupation	Neuroscientist
Academic background
Alma mater	IIT Kanpur (B.Tech.) Vanderbilt University (M.Eng.), (Eng.D.)
Academic work
Institutions	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Yale University
Website	www.surlab.org

Biography

Mriganka Sur did his early schooling at the St. Joseph's Collegiate School, Allahabad. He received the Bachelor of Technology degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur (IIT Kanpur) in 1974, and the Master of Science and PhD degrees in electrical engineering in 1975 and 1978, respectively, from Vanderbilt University in Nashville.^{[citation needed]} After postdoctoral research at Stony Brook University, he was appointed to the faculty of Yale University School of Medicine in 1983. He joined the faculty of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1986. He was named in 1993 professor of neuroscience and in 1997 head of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. He is currently the Newton Professor of Neuroscience and director of the Simons Center for the Social Brain at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.^[6][7][8][9]