Congratulations to Bala for successfully defending his thesis: “Comparative evaluation of Ising couplings, kinetic Ising couplings and partial correlations in inferring structural connectivity”. To learn more about his research, you can read his paper: “Inferring structural connectivity using Ising couplings in models of neuronal networks” published in Scientific Reports, 2017 (doi:10.1038/s41598-017-05462-2)