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Brent Doiron is the Heinrich Kluver Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Chicago. He received his PhD in Physics from the University of Ottawa in 2004 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Neural Science at New York University in 2017. Prior to his current position, he was a professor of Mathematics at the University of Pittsburgh, and co-director of the Program in Neural Computation at the Neuroscience Institute at Carnegie Mellon University from 2007 to 2020. His research focuses on the combination of nonlinear dynamics and statistical mechanics, with an emphasis on the genesis and transfer of variability in neural circuits. He has developed core theoretical insights and made contributions to neural coding and network learning. Throughout his career, he has collaborated with experimental colleagues studying various sensory systems, including electrosensory, olfactory, somatosensory, auditory, and visual systems. In June 2021, he became the inaugural director of the Grossman Institute at the University of Chicago.
University of Pittsburgh • Pittsburgh, PA
Professor of Mathematics and co-director of the Program in Neural Computation.
Department of Philosophy