Tharan Suresh

Tharan Suresh, PhD

Movement & Cognitive Rehabilitation Science
The University of Texas at Austin

546H Belmont Hall, San Jacinto Blvd
Austin, TX 78712

Education

Ph.D. in Movement & Cognitive Rehabilitation Science

The University of Texas at Austin, USA

M.S. in Cognitive Science

Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, India

B.S. in Clinical Neuroscience

Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

Recent News

Jul 2026 New paper in Journal of Neurophysiology on how motor preparation time transforms micro-offline gains. [Link]

Jun 2026 Attended the Cleveland NeuroDesign entrepreneurship workshop in Munich, Germany.

Cleveland NeuroDesign workshop, Munich Pitch at Cleveland NeuroDesign workshop

Jun 2026 Visited the new RN-NRL lab space at the University of Iowa.

RN-NRL lab space, University of Iowa

May 2026 Successfully defended my PhD! 🎓

PhD defense PhD defense cake

May 2026 Neurotech course workshop at i3R, University of Arkansas.

Neurotech workshop at i3R, Arkansas

Apr 2026 Empower Your Pitch finalist!

Empower Your Pitch finals

Feb 2026 Visited the Real-time Neurorehabilitation Lab at the University of Iowa.

Iowa lab visit

Jan 2026 Invited to present research to Women in Neuroscience, Austin.

Women in Neuroscience talk

Nov 2025 Presented two posters — motor memory reactivation and mu waveform shape changes after motor sequence learning — at SfN, San Diego.

SfN 2025 poster presentation

Nov 2025 New paper on micro-offline gains in motor learning published in Scientific Reports.

Oct 2025 New collaborative paper with Dr. Timothy Lowe in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise.

Jul 2025 Invited talk at the University of Oxford on sensorimotor mu phase mechanisms.

Jun 2025 New preprint on motor memory reactivation available on bioRxiv.

Jun 2025 New paper in Journal of Neurophysiology on motor sequence learning.

May 2025 Invited talk at the Arms + Hands Lab, Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, on sensorimotor mu phase-dependent mechanisms of human motor learning and control.

May 2025 Invited talk with the Brain Box Initiative on motor sequence learning.

Apr 2025 Awarded the Graduate School Continuing Fellowship at UT Austin.

Mar 2025 Uttara Khatri presented our work at the American Society of Neurorehabilitation Annual Meeting.