Pawan Sinha is Associate Professor of Computational Science at the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT.

Pawan Sinha has earned a variety of academic and industry honors, including the 2007 Troland Research Award, the AT&T Research Award, the NEC Research Award and the first prize in MIT’s 1997 Entrepreneurial Competition.

He received a B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, and then came to MIT for his M.S., Ph.D., and post-doctoral training. He served as a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute, and an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He joined MIT in 1999. Sinha is an inventor, and an accomplished cartoonist, who penned an award-winning comic strip called "Tumbleweed Garden" for the MIT student newspaper.