Dr. Balachandar is an aspiring movement disorders neurologist-scientist. He is a movement disorders neurology fellow at Toronto Western Hospital, Canada, and PhD candidate at the University of Toronto. He completed his medical school and neurology residency training at the University of Toronto.

Dr. Balachandar has been involved in numerous novel research projects such as using machine learning to develop tools to detect sleep from deep brain activity in deep brain stimulation patients or to diagnose Parkinson’s disease, essential tremor and dystonic using smartphone accelerometers, and applying deep learning to diagnose dysphagia in stroke patients using voice.

His current focus is in developing novel neuromodulation and brain-computer interface interventions. This includes smarter adaptive methods of neurostimulation for various undertreated facets of Parkinson’s disease such as gait and sleep disorders and using new neural recording technology such as high-density cortical arrays to decode behavioral states more accurately to guide such adaptive stimulation treatments.