Curriculum Vitae

Last updated April 2026

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Education

2024 – present
PhD in Cognition and Perception
Department of Psychology, New York University
Advisor: Catherine Hartley
2018 – 2020
M.Sc in Cognitive Sciences
Centre of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences (CBCS), University of Allahabad
Advisor: Narayanan Srinivasan
2014 – 2018
B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering
SRM Institute of Science & Technology, Chennai
Semester abroad: Umeå University, Sweden (Jan–June 2017)

Research Experience

Aug 2021 – Jul 2024
Project Associate · Emotion and Cognition Lab
Centre for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
PI: Srikanth Padmala
Dec 2020 – Jul 2021
Project Associate · Space Lab
Centre for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
PI: Sachin Deshmukh
Jan – Jun 2018
Research Intern
Philips India Ltd, Philips Innovation Campus, Bangalore

Publications

Role of contingency in the effects of appetitive and aversive motivation on emotional distraction
Krishnan, A., Sivakumaran, S., & Padmala, S.
Cognition and Emotion · 2025
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Role of contingency in reward-emotion interactions during the categorization of emotional facial expressions
Sivakumaran, S., Chakravarthula, L., & Padmala, S.
Motivation Science · 2024
DOI

Conference Presentations

Nov 2025
Neuroscience 2025 (SfN), San Diego, CA [Poster]
Oct 2025
Society for Neuroeconomics 2025 (SNE), Boston, MA [Poster]
Dec 2023
Role of contingency in reward-emotion interactions [Poster]
Sivakumaran, S., Chakravarthula, L., & Padmala, S. · 10th Annual Conference of Cognitive Science, IIT-Kanpur
Jan 2021
Intertemporal choice under uncertainty [Talk]
Sivakumaran, S., & Srinivasan, N. · 7th Annual Conference of Cognitive Science, IISc Bangalore

Teaching

Mar 2023
Teaching Assistant
Workshop on Cognitive Neuroimaging · CBCS, University of Allahabad