Bio
Sandhya is a premed Sophomore at Rutgers Undergraduate majoring in Computer Science and minoring in Biology. She has worked as a Research Assistant in the Milstein lab since Summer 2022, and has been supported by the Aresty Summer Science Program, the CABM SURE Program, and the SAS Cell Biology and Neuroscience Department. She currently plans to apply to medical schools in order to become a doctor specializing in Neurosurgery and Emergency Medicine. Her work in the lab focuses on understanding the roles of biological synaptic plasticity rules and feedback inhibition from local interneurons in pattern discrimination learning.