Dr. Sivaraju completed his medical school from Andhra medical college, India. He was resident and chief resident of neurology at the Rutgers University, New Jersey Medical School. He then completed a two-year fellowship in epilepsy and clinical neurophysiology at Yale university, and stayed back on faculty as an assistant professor in the department of neurology. His research interests and publications are on topics including epilepsy surgery, intracranial EEG monitoring, cortical stimulation and outcome prediction using EEG in post-cardiac arrest comatose patients.