Notes
Media · Writing · Talks · Presentations · Public engagement
Media & news
Jan 2026
Oct 2025
Bouvé College "Redefining What's Possible" series · featured for translational diabetes and autism research
Oct 2025
Bouvé College Instagram takeover · showcasing Playful Mind Lab research to the Northeastern community
Writing on Medium
May 10, 2024
A Journey from Curiosity to Compassion: My Path into Autism Research
How a winding path through three countries and multiple fields of science led me to study gaze, movement, and prediction in autistic individuals.
May 13, 2024
The Unyielding Strength of a Mother's Love: A Tribute to My Unsung Heroine
A personal essay honouring the quiet strength that shaped me, written from Boston on a day that asked for reflection.
May 20, 2024
Eye Movements and Pupil Dynamics: Unveiling the Windows to Cognitive Processes
A readable tour through what saccades, fixations, and pupil responses can and cannot tell us about the mind, drawn from clinical and research experience.
May 29, 2024
Rediscovering the Strings of Passion: A Journey with Carnatic Violin
On returning to the violin after years away, and what Carnatic music teaches about discipline, memory, and the craft of attention.
Full archive: @srenga93 on Medium · essays on neuroscience, digital health, research-to-startup, and life as a PhD student.
Podcasts & video talks
Dec 2025
Sep 2025
Jan 2025
Invited talks & panels
Conference presentations
Apr 2026
ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications (ETRA '26) · Marrakech, Morocco · Learning Where to Look: Spatial Prior Acquisition in Autism (Late-Breaking Work)
Apr 2026
Research, Innovation, Scholarship & Entrepreneurship (RISE) Expo · Boston, MA · Designing Scalable Data Frameworks for Personalized Diabetes Management · Learning Where to Look: Spatial Prior Formation in Autism
Nov 2024
Northern New England MedTech Conference · Sugar Slay↗ · Selected as 1 of 10 presenters statewide
Mar 2024
Advanced Technologies & Treatments for Diabetes (ATTD) · Florence, Italy · Sugar Slay / gamified CGM app
Dec 2022
CMU-TCCI BrainPlay Conference · Pittsburgh, PA · Conflict-Minimizing and Goal-Seeking Motor Imperatives in ASD
Nov 2022
Jul 2022
ISAGA Conference · Boston, MA · Conflict-Minimizing and Goal-Seeking Motor Imperatives in ASD
Aug 2019
Flux Congress · New York City, NY · Computerized assessment of motor imitation in ASD
May 2019
International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) · Montreal, Canada · Motor imitation in ASD
Mar 2019
Society for Research in Child Development · Baltimore, MD · Motor imitation in ASD
Dec 2017
Japanese Society for Immunology Meeting · Sendai, Japan · Role of prolonged ROS in BCR signaling
Oct 2014
International Medical Sciences Academy Conference · Bangkok, Thailand · Are we carrying too many nephrons?
Reflections
2026
On defending a dissertation: what the final stretch actually looks like (forthcoming)
2022
On mentorship: what I wish someone had told me at 22 (forthcoming)