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Ila Fiete is a Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and serves as an Associate Investigator at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research. She is the Director of the K. Lisa Yang Integrative Computational Neuroscience (ICoN) Center. Her research examines the mechanisms underlying memory, integration, inference, and learning in the brain's deep networks through quantitative data analysis and theoretical computational modeling techniques. Fiete's groundbreaking work focuses on grid cells and neurons that assist mammals in navigating their environment, providing insights into the theoretical mechanisms of activity stabilization and developmental emergence of spatial memory and cognitive mapping. Her contributions to the field of neuroscience have been recognized with awards such as the 2022 Swartz Prize from the Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience Society. Fiete earned her bachelor's degrees in physics and mathematics from the University of Michigan and completed her PhD in physics at Harvard University.