Vilas Menon
Expert in Computational Neuroscience and Cell Type Analysis
About Me
Vilas Menon is Assistant Professor of Neurological Sciences at Columbia University's Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain. After earning his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Northwestern University studying signal integration and information processing in neurons, he worked as a scientist at the Allen Institute for Brain Science and as a fellow at Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Research Campus. His research combines computational and experimental methods to analyze large-scale molecular data in neurological disease. At Columbia, his lab investigates cell type vulnerability in aging and neurodegenerative diseases, individual resilience to pathology, and reproducibility in molecular studies. He leads multiple NIH-funded projects and collaborates with the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative's Neurodegeneration Challenge Network, focusing on developing new analytical methods for single-cell and population-level data analysis.