Gayathri Mahalingam joined the Allen Institute in 2017 as a Scientist in the Neural Coding department. She works with the Network Anatomy group in its efforts to generate peta scale datasets with a goal of mapping the wiring diagram of the mouse neocortex and its functional connectivity. Gayathri graduated with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Delaware with specializations in the field of Computer Vision and Machine Learning, and Biometrics. She worked as a Post-Doctoral fellow at the Institute of Interdisciplinary Sciences in Identity Sciences at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington before joining the Institute.