Dr Pratibha Yadav, an alumnus of CES who did her PhD with Prof Renee Borges, has been awarded “Post-Doctoral Fellowship for outstanding Post-Doctoral Researchers from China & India” (by the Planning and Budgeting Committee, Council for Higher Education in Israel). Pratibha will take up this fellowship (starting Oct' 2019) to continue her postdoctoral research at the Tel Aviv University where she joined in Oct’ 2018 through another fellowship that she was awarded by the Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University. Her research topic is “Exploring the sensorimotor perception and integration of multiple-simultaneous visual stimuli in locusts, with application in swarming robotics”.

Before joining the Tel Aviv University, Pratibha spent time at the Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber-Physical Systems at IISc (as Research Associate) followed by a 6-month stint as a visiting researcher at the Ontario Tech University, Canada.