Keshav is interested in the cell-type specific computations in the basal ganglia that underlie reinforcement learning. He finished his undergraduate studies at UC Irvine in 2019 where he worked with Dr. Jessica Bolton and Dr. Tallie Baram to study astrocytes in a mouse model of early life stress. He did his PhD at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in the labs of Dr. Joshua Burda and Dr. Simon Knott. With support from a NINDS F31 fellowship, his dissertation work utilized a wide range of next-generation sequencing methods, transgenic mouse lines, and in vivo models of injury to delineate the identity and functional consequences of astrocyte states across different neuropathologies. He joined the Gadagkar Lab in 2024 to continue his work on astrocytes, but now to understand how they may enable a zebra finch to maintain exquisite control over his song.