Sankalp Tikoo

Postdoctoral Scientist @Cedars-Sinai

Los Angeles, CA, US

Infant Brain Connectivity & Neurodevelopmental Disorders – Led a large-scale study on infant brain connectivity, identifying early specialization patterns and altered connectivity in preterm infants, providing insights for early detection of ADHD, Autism, and Cerebral Palsy-Neuroimaging Method for Cerebellar Development – Developed a novel method to study cerebellar growth in preterm infants (as young as 7 months), enabling precise connectivity analysis and longitudinal monitoring up to 6 years for improved developmental tracking-EEG System Management & Training – Managed EEG operations for a large-scale neurodevelopmental study, overseeing system setup, data acquisition (infants 13-15 months), and troubleshooting while training 10+ research interns to ensure standardized, high-quality data collection-Automated MRI Preprocessing Pipeline – Streamlined fMRI preprocessing, improving motion outlier detection by 30% and reducing analysis time by 40%, ensuring high-quality, reproducible neuroimaging data-Enhancing Reproducibility in Neonatal fMRI – Analyzed neuroimaging data from infants, determining the minimum sample size for consistent brain connectivity results, improving study design and data reliability