Gopikrishna Deshpande is a professor of electrical and computer engineering and heads neuroimaging activities at the AU MRI Research Center in Auburn University, USA. He is also affiliated faculty at the Department of Psychological Sciences and the Center for Neuroscience at Auburn University, as well as visiting professor at the following institutions: (i) Key Lab for Learning and Cognition, School of Psychology, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China, (ii) Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bengaluru, India, and (iii) Centre for Brain Research, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India. Before moving to Auburn, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Biomedical Imaging Technology Center, Emory University (2007–2010), USA. He earned his Ph.D. degree in biomedical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA (2003–2007), and his M.S degree in electrical communication engineering from the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India (2001–2003). His research interests include investigation of brain function using ultra-high-field (7T) functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), connectivity modeling, and machine learning. He has published more than 115 peer-reviewed papers and obtained funding from major organizations within the US such as NIH and DARPA.