Experience

AI in Science Research Fellow
2025-10-01 - 2027-09-30
I-X Imperial College London
London, UK

Exploring the role of self-organization and emergence in task-generalization and learning in artificial and biological neural networks.

Postdoctoral Researcher
2023-04-01 - 2025-09-30
Mathematics, Imperial College London
London, UK

Statistical Physics of Cognition project focused on investigationg the role of critical brain dynamics in cognition using experimental, mathematical and computational methods.

Postdoctoral Researcher
2021-07-26 - 2023-03-31
The Alan Turing Institute
London, UK

The Shocks and Resilience project was an interdisciplinary research project exploring resilience in health, economic and online social systems.

PhD Intern
2020-02-28 - 2021-03-15
BIOS Health Ltd.
Cambridge, UK

BIOS Health is a research intensive healthtech startup based in Cambridge. They are a pioneering AI driven neural-interface devices to develop targetted therapies for chronic illnesses.

Education

Applied Mathematics (PhD)
2017-09-30 - 2021-10-01
Imperial College London

Thesis: "Causality and Emergence in Complex Systems: Perspectives from Information Theory"
Physics (Integrated MSc)
2012-07-20 - 2017-08-30
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

Thesis: "On the dynamics of parametrically forced oscillations in a damped planar double pendulum"

Publications

Journal articles and conference papers

  1. Alberto Liardi, George Blackburne, Hardik Rajpal, Fernando E Rosas, Pedro AM Mediano (2026). A scalable estimator of higher-order information in complex dynamical systems. Cell Reports Physical Science, 103550.
  2. Hardik Rajpal, Paul Expert, Vaiva Vasiliauskaite (2026). Directed Cycles as Higher-Order Units of Information Processing in Complex Networks. Communications Physics.
  3. Hardik Rajpal, Cedric Stefens, Meghdad Saeedian, Joe S Canzano, Michael G Kareithi, Mauricio Barahona, Spencer LaVere Smith, Henrik J Jensen (2026). Synergy mediates Long-Range Correlations in the Visual Cortex Near Criticality. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience.
  4. Hardik Rajpal, Clem von Stengel, Pedro AM Mediano, Fernando E Rosas, Eduardo Viegas, Pablo A Marquet, Henrik J Jensen (2025). Information dynamics and the emergence of high-order individuality in ecosystems. Communications Biology.
  5. Hardik Rajpal, Omar A Guerrero (2025). Synergistic small worlds that drive technological sophistication. PNAS Nexus.
  6. Takayuki Nozawa, Madalina Sas, David Dolan, Hardik Rajpal, Fernando E Rosas, Christopher B Timmermann, Pedro AM Mediano, Keigo Honda, Shunnichi Amano, Yoshihiro Miyake, Henrik J Jensen (2025). Multiscale synchronisation dynamics reveals the impact of an improvisatory approach to performance on music experience. Scientific Reports.
  7. Hardik Rajpal, Pedro AM Mediano, Fernando E Rosas, Christopher B Timmermann, Stefan Brugger, Suresh Muthukumaraswamy, Anil K Seth, Daniel Bor, Robin L Carhart-Harris, Henrik J Jensen (2022). Psychedelics and schizophrenia: Distinct alterations to Bayesian inference. NeuroImage 263, 119624.
  8. Hardik Rajpal, Madalina Sas, Chris Lockwood, Rebecca Joakim, Nicholas S Peters, Max Falkenberg (2020). Interpretable xgboost based classification of 12-lead ecgs applying information theory measures from neuroscience. Computing in Cardiology, 1-4.
  9. Hardik Rajpal, Fernando E Rosas, Henrik J Jensen (2019). Tangled worldview model of opinion dynamics. Frontiers in Physics 7, 163.
  10. David Dolan, Henrik J Jensen, Pedro AM Mediano, Miguel Molina-Solana, Hardik Rajpal, Fernando E Rosas, John A Sloboda (2018). The improvisational state of mind: A multidisciplinary study of an improvisatory approach to classical music repertoire performance. Frontiers in Psychology 9.
  11. Hardik Rajpal, Deepak Dhar (2018). Achieving perfect coordination amongst agents in the co-action minority game. Games 9(2r), 27.

Preprints

  1. Yuewei Du, Alberto Liardi, Hardik Rajpal, Henrik J Jensen (2026). Fisher Information Metric as a model-free measure of proximity to criticality in neural systems. arXiv.
  2. Jess J Yu, Hardik Rajpal, Mary Ann Go, Simon R Schultz (2026). Hippocampal information topology breaks down in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease. bioRxiv.
  3. Hardik Rajpal, Dan Goodman (2026). Emergent Generalization by Representation Learning in Artificial Neural Networks. arXiv.
  4. Ross Ah-Weng, Hardik Rajpal (2026). Collective Dynamics in Spiking Neural Networks Beyond Dale's Principle. arXiv.
  5. Hardik Rajpal, Pedro AM Mediano, Madalina Sas, Henrik J Jensen, Fernando E Rosas (2026). Quantifying the Emergence of Population-Level Activity in Neuronal Systems. bioRxiv.
  6. Madalina Sas, Fernando E Rosas, Hardik Rajpal, Daniel Bor, Henrik J Jensen, Pedro AM Mediano (2025). Improved estimators of causal emergence for large systems. arXiv.
  7. Sukankana Chakraborty, Leonardo Castro-Gonzalez, Helen Margetts, Hardik Rajpal, Daniele Guariso, Jonathan Bright (2024). Who is driving the conversation? Analysing the nodality of British MPs and journalists on social media. arXiv.

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