# Smith Gupta

**Source**: https://home.iitk.ac.in/~smith/
**Parent**: https://iitk.ac.in/doaa/pmrf/

I am a research fellow at the Biological Sciences and Bioengineering department at IIT Kanpur. I am working with Dr. Nitin Gupta at the [Lab of Neural Systems](https://sites.google.com/site/labofneuralsystems/) in the area of insect olfaction. My research aims to decipher the mechanism by which neuromodulators overcome the variability of the nervous system to generate reliable behavior. We have already quantified the variation in the antennal lobe of *Aedes aegypti* and now want to understand the compensatory mechanisms that act during animal behavior. Towards this goal, we have created an arena that can simulate an olfactory environment of any complexity, allowing a fly to freely navigate in the environment while we simultaneously record calcium signals from neurons of interest.