Publications

Journal papers

JSAIT
2024
June
Ariel K Feldman, Praveen Venkatesh, Douglas J Weber and Pulkit Grover
"Information-Theoretic Tools to Understand Distributed Source Coding in Neuroscience"
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory
Trans IT
2021
August
Sanghamitra Dutta, Praveen Venkatesh, Piotr Mardziel, Anupam Datta and Pulkit Grover
"Fairness Under Feature Exemptions: Counterfactual and Observational Measures"
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
JNE
2021
March
Praveen Venkatesh, Daniel Sneider*, Mohammed Danish*, Nathaniel D Sisterson, Naoir Zaher, Alexandra Urban, Pulkit Grover, R Mark Richardson and Vasileios Kokkinos
"Quantifying a Frequency Modulation Response Biomarker in Responsive Neurostimulation"
Journal of Neural Engineering
*Equal contribution
Trans IT
2020
April
Praveen Venkatesh, Sanghamitra Dutta and Pulkit Grover
"Information Flow in Computational Systems"
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Trans BME
2018
August
Alireza Chamanzar, Shilpa George, Praveen Venkatesh, Maysamreza Chamanzar, Lori Shutter, Jonathan Elmer and Pulkit Grover
"An Algorithm for Automated, Noninvasive Detection of Cortical Spreading Depolarizations Based on EEG Simulations"
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
Sci Rep
2017
November
Amanda Robinson, Praveen Venkatesh, Matthew Boring, Michael Tarr, Pulkit Grover and Marlene Behrmann
"Very High Density EEG Elucidates Spatiotemporal Aspects of Early Visual Processing"
Scientific Reports
Proc IEEE
2016
December
Pulkit Grover and Praveen Venkatesh
"An Information-theoretic View of EEG Sensing"
Proceedings of the IEEE

Top-tier AI/ML Conference papers

NeurIPS
2023
December
Praveen Venkatesh, Corbett Bennett, Sam Gale, Tamina K Ramirez, Greggory Heller, Severine Durand, Shawn Olsen and Stefan Mihalas
"Gaussian Partial Information Decomposition: Bias Correction and Application to High-dimensional Data"
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
Spotlight
NeurIPS
2021
December
Praveen Venkatesh, Sanghamitra Dutta*, Neil Mehta* and Pulkit Grover
"Can Information Flows Suggest Targets for Interventions in Neural Circuits?"
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
*Equal contribution
AAAI
2020
February
Sanghamitra Dutta, Praveen Venkatesh, Piotr Mardziel, Anupam Datta and Pulkit Grover
"An Information-Theoretic Quantification of Discrimination with Exempt Features"
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI): Oral presentation
NeurIPS
2019
December
Aditya Gangrade, Praveen Venkatesh, Bobak Nazer and Venkatesh Saligrama
"Efficient Near-Optimal Testing of Community Changes in Stochastic Block Models"
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)

Conference papers

ISIT
2023
June
Praveen Venkatesh, Keerthana Gurushankar and Gabriel Schamberg
"Capturing and Interpreting Unique Information"
International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)
Allerton
2022
September
Keerthana Gurushankar, Praveen Venkatesh and Pulkit Grover
"Extracting Unique Information Through Markov Relations"
Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing
ISIT
2022
June
Praveen Venkatesh* and Gabriel Schamberg*
"Partial Information Decomposition via Deficiency for Multivariate Gaussians"
International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)
*Equal contribution
ISIT
2020
June
Praveen Venkatesh, Sanghamitra Dutta and Pulkit Grover
"How else can we define Information Flow in Neural Circuits?"
International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)
ISIT
2019
July
Praveen Venkatesh, Sanghamitra Dutta and Pulkit Grover
"How should we define Information Flow in Neural Circuits?"
International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)
BioCAS
2018
October
Zabir Ahmed, Jay Reddy, Kaustubh Deshpande, Ashwati Krishnan, Praveen Venkatesh, Shawn Kelly, Pulkit Grover and Maysamreza Chamanzar
"Flexible Ultra-resolution Subdermal EEG Probes"
Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS)
EMBC
2018
July
Ashwati Krishnan, Ritesh Kumar, Praveen Venkatesh, Shawn Kelly and Pulkit Grover
"Low-cost Carbon Fiber-based Conductive Silicone Sponge EEG Electrodes"
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC): Oral presentation
ISIT
2017
June
Praveen Venkatesh and Pulkit Grover
"Lower Bounds on the Minimax Risk for the Source Localization Problem"
International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)
Allerton
2015
September
Praveen Venkatesh and Pulkit Grover
"Is the Direction of Greater Granger Causal Influence the Same as the Direction of Information Flow?"
Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing
Allerton
2015
September
Pulkit Grover, Jeffrey A Weldon, Shawn K Kelly, Praveen Venkatesh and Haewon Jeong
"An Information-theoretic Technique for Harnessing Attenuation of High Spatial Frequencies to Design Ultra-High-Density EEG"
Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing

Top-tier Conferences & Workshops with Extended Abstracts

NeuroAI
2024
December
Praveen Venkatesh, Jiaqi Shang, Corbett C Bennett, Sam Gale, Greggory Robert Heller, Tamina Keira Ramirez, Severine Durand, Eric Shea-Brown, Shawn R Olsen and Stefan Mihalas
"The Role of Cortical Variability in Supporting Few-shot Generalization: Theory and Empirical Evidence"
NeurIPS 2024 Workshop on NeuroAI
(accepted)
Cosyne
2024
March
Praveen Venkatesh, Corbett C Bennett, Sam Gale, Juri Minxha, Hristos Courellis, Greggory Robert Heller, Tamina Keira Ramirez, Severine Durand, Ueli Rutishauser, Shawn R Olsen and Stefan Mihalas
"The variability of representations in mice and humans changes with learning, engagement, and attention"
Computational and Systems Neuroscience (Cosyne)
NeurReps
2023
December
Praveen Venkatesh, Corbett C Bennett, Sam Gale, Juri Minxha, Hristos Courellis, Greggory Robert Heller, Tamina Keira Ramirez, Severine Durand, Ueli Rutishauser, Shawn R Olsen and Stefan Mihalas
"The Variability of Representations in Mice and Humans Changes with Learning, Engagement, and Attention"
NeurIPS 2023 Workshop on Symmetry and Geometry in Neural Representations (NeurReps)
InfoCog
2023
December
Miles Mahon and Praveen Venkatesh
"Information Flows Reveal Computational Mechanisms of RNNs in Contextual Decision-making"
NeurIPS 2023 Workshop on Information-Theoretic Principles in Cognitive Systems (InfoCog)
Cosyne
2022
March
Praveen Venkatesh, Gabriel Schamberg, Adrienne Fairhall, Shawn Olsen, Stefan Mihalas and Christof Koch
"Gaussian Partial Information Decomposition: Quantifying Inter-areal Interactions in High-Dimensional Neural Data"
Computational and Systems Neuroscience (Cosyne)
ITCI
2022
February
Sanghamitra Dutta, Praveen Venkatesh and Pulkit Grover
"Quantifying Feature Contributions to Overall Disparity Using Information Theory"
AAAI 2022 Workshop on Information-Theoretic Methods for Causal Inference and Discovery (ITCI)
Cosyne
2020
February
Praveen Venkatesh and Pulkit Grover
"Understanding Encoding and Redundancy in Grid Cells Using Partial Information Decomposition"
Computational and Systems Neuroscience (Cosyne)

Workshops and Conference abstracts

AES
2020
December
Praveen Venkatesh, Mohammed Danish*, Daniel Sneider*, Nathaniel D Sisterson, Pulkit Grover, R Mark Richardson and Vasileios Kokkinos
"Quantifying Frequency Modulation in Seizures of Patients Undergoing Responsive Neurostimulation"
American Epilepsy Society annual meeting
*Equal contribution
ITA
2020
February
Praveen Venkatesh, Sanghamitra Dutta and Pulkit Grover
"Information Flow in Neural Circuits: Formal Definition and Required Neuroengineering"
Information Theory and Applications Workshop (ITA): Graduation Day Talk
Winner of the ITA Sun Award: the gold prize for graduation day talks
AES
2019
December
Praveen Venkatesh, Vasileios Kokkinos, R Mark Richardson and Pulkit Grover
"An automated and configurable seizure segmentation tool for tracking the evolution of seizures"
American Epilepsy Society Annual Meeting (AES)
SfN
2019
October
Praveen Venkatesh and Pulkit Grover
"Relating Information Flow and Causal Interventions in Neural Circuits"
SfN Neuroscience
CNS ITW
2019
July
Praveen Venkatesh and Pulkit Grover
"Revealing Information Paths in the Brain using Synergistic Information"
CNS*2019 Workshop on Methods of Information Theory in Computational Neuroscience
CNS
2019
July
Praveen Venkatesh and Pulkit Grover
"An Information-theoretic Framework for Examining Information Flow in the Brain"
28th Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS*2019)
SAND
2019
May
Praveen Venkatesh and Pulkit Grover
"A Systematic way to Define Information Flow"
Ninth International Workshop on the Statistical Analysis of Neuronal Data (SAND)
OSA
2018
September
Sarah M Haigh, Alireza Chamanzar, Praveen Venkatesh, Pulkit Grover and Marlene Behrmann
"Cortical Hyper-Excitability in Migraine to Chromatic Patterns"
Optical Society of America Fall Vision Meeting
SfN
2018
November
Kaustubh Deshpande, Zabir Ahmed, Jay Reddy, Ashwati Krishnan, Praveen Venkatesh, Shawn Kelly, Pulkit Grover and Maysamreza Chamanzar
"Flexible, Ultra-resolution, Subdermal EEG Probes"
SfN Neuroscience: Nanosymposium
MHSRS
2018
August
Alireza Chamanzar, Shilpa George, Praveen Venkatesh, Maysam Chamanzar, Jonathan Elmer, Lori Shutter and Pulkit Grover
"Automated Algorithm and System for Noninvasive Detection of Worsening Brain Injuries"
Military Health System Research Symposium
ICCN
2018
May
Ritesh Kumar, Praveen Venkatesh, Rui Sun, Gayathri Mohankumar, Arun Antony, R Mark Richardson and Pulkit Grover
"Ultra-high-density scalp EEG outperforms localized invasive ECoG grids in inferring depth of seizure foci"
31st International Congress of Clinical Neurophysiology
AES
2017
December
Rui Sun, Pulkit Grover, Rudina Morina, Marie Bremner, Praveen Venkatesh, Anto Bagic, R Mark Richardson, Jullie Pan, Alexandra Urban, Naoir Zaher and Arun Antony
"Analysis of cortical stimulation data to localize intracranial electrodes using simultaneous scalp and stereo EEG recordings"
American Epilepsy Society annual meeting
SfN
2017
November
Praveen Venkatesh, Ashwati Krishnan, Jeffrey Weldon, Shawn Kelly and Pulkit Grover
"Ultra-resolution Subdermal EEG: Long-term Minimally-invasive Brain Monitoring"
SfN Neuroscience
ISIT
2017
June
Praveen Venkatesh and Pulkit Grover
"High Density EEG: Information-theoretic Limits and Algorithms"
International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Recent Results
SAND
2017
May
Praveen Venkatesh, Pulkit Grover, Amanda Robinson, Marlene Behrmann, Ashwati Krishnan, Jeff Weldon, Shawn Kelly and Michael Tarr
"Can EEG be Hi-Res? Finding out with Theory, Experiments, Algorithms and Instrumentation"
Eighth International Workshop on the Statistical Analysis of Neuronal Data (SAND)
IBIA
2017
March
Alireza Chamanzar, Shilpa George, Praveen Venkatesh, Wanqiao Ding and Pulkit Grover
"Systematic and Automated Algorithms for Detecting Cortical Spreading Depolarizations Using EEG and ECoG to Improve TBI Diagnosis and Treatment"
12th World Congress on Brain Injury
AES
2016
December
Praveen Venkatesh, Wanqiao Ding and Pulkit Grover
"Data Processing for Reliable Detection of Cortical Spreading Depolarizations Using High-density EEG"
American Epilepsy Society annual meeting
SfN
2015
October
Praveen Venkatesh and Pulkit Grover
"Is the Direction of Greater Granger Causal Influence the Same as the Direction of Information Flow?"
SfN Neuroscience
SAND
2015
May
Praveen Venkatesh and Pulkit Grover
"Is the Direction of Granger Causal Influence the Same as the Direction of Information Flow?"
Seventh International Workshop on the Statistical Analysis of Neuronal Data (SAND)