Dhinakaran M. Chinappen is a research associate at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Kennedy Krieger Institute. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital and earned a PhD in Computational Neuroscience from Boston University.
He also holds an MBA from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign with a specialization in Strategic Innovation and Digital Marketing, a Master of Engineering in Biomedical Engineering from Cornell University, and both a Bachelor of Arts in Economics (with a minor in Mathematics) and a Bachelor of Science in Engineering in Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania.