Nisarg Desai

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Anthropology .
Room 395 HHHSPA

301 19th Ave S

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Anthropology

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I am a Ph.D. student at the Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota working with Prof. Michael Wilson. I study vocal communication in chimpanzees at Gombe National Park, Tanzania. I use machine learning techniques to study the role of vocal learning and sexual selection in explaining the variation in chimpanzee vocalizations.

Educational Background & Specialties

Educational Background

M.A.: Biological Anthropology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 2018.
BS-MS Dual Degree: Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, 2015.

Curriculum Vitae

Specialties

Primate behavior and ecology
Machine learning

Publications

Das, S., Erinjery, J. J., Desai, N., Mohan, K., Kumara, H. N., & Singh, M. (2018). Deceased-infant carrying in nonhuman anthropoids: Insights from systematic analysis and case studies of bonnet macaques (Macaca radiata) and lion-tailed macaques (Macaca silenus). Journal of comparative psychology
Mangalam, M., Desai, N.,& Singh, M. (2016). Division of labour: a democratic approach towards understanding manual asymmetries in non-human primates. CURRENT SCIENCE, 110(9), 1630.
Mangalam, M., Desai, N.,& Singh, M. (2016). Self-organization of laterally asymmetrical movements as a consequence of space–time optimization. Journal of theoretical biology, 390, 50-60.
Mangalam, M., Desai, N.,& Singh, M. (2015). Division of labor in hand usage is associated with higher hand performance in free-ranging bonnet macaques, Macaca radiata. PloS one, 10(3), e0119337.
Mangalam, M., Desai, N.,& Singh, M. (2014). Do right-handed monkeys use the right cheek pouch before the left?. PloS one, 9(5), e97971.
Mangalam, M., Desai, N.,& Singh, M. (2014). Division of labor in hand usage in free‐ranging bonnet macaques, (Macaca radiata). American journal of primatology, 76(6), 576-585.

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