Biographies

Dr. Tomaso A. Poggio
Eugene McDermott Professor at the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences; Co-Director of the Center for Biological and Computational Learning; and Member, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Dr. Tomaso A. Poggio, is the Eugene McDermott Professor at the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences; Co-Director of the Center for Biological and Computational Learning; Member for the last 25 years of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; since 2000, member of the faculty of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research and member of the steering committee of the Center for Collective Intelligence. He is author or co-author of over 400 papers in the fields of learning theory, computer science, computational neuroscience, and nonlinear systems theory and he belongs to the editorial board of several scientific journals. He is an honorary member of the Neuroscience Research Program, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Founding Fellow of AAAI. He received several awards such as the Otto-Hahn-Medaille Award of the Max-Planck-Society, the Max Planck Research Award (with M. Fahle), from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the MIT 50K Entrepreneurship Competition Award, the Laurea Honoris Causa in Ingegneria Informatica for the Bicentenario dell'Invenzione della Pila from the University of Pavia and the 2003 Gabor Award.

His research has been interdisciplinary, between brains and computers. It is now focused on the mathematics of learning theory, the applications of learning techniques to computer vision, bioinformatics, computer graphics and especially on computational neuroscience of the visual cortex in close collaboration with several physiology labs. A former Corporate Fellow of Thinking Machines Corporation, he is a director of PHZ Capital Partners, Inc., and was involved in starting several other high tech companies including Arris Pharmaceutical, nFX, Digital Persona, and Imagen.

For more information see http://cbcl.mit.edu, especially the People and the News section with recent media reports on the research of Prof. Poggio and his group (CBCL).