He is also a faculty member in the Department of Psychology. Before coming to Auburn in 2010, Deshpande was a research faculty member for the Biomedical Imaging Technology Center at Emory University. He has published more than 55 peer-reviewed journal papers in the field of neuroimaging, functional magnetic resonance imaging, signal processing, and machine learning. Deshpande is also the recipient of a million dollar grant from the Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency for imaging awake dogs; he and his group at Auburn were the first in the world to demonstrate this technology. Deshpande and his wife, Chaitra Gururaja, have two sons: Vibhuvar and Yaduvar.