Dr. Terrence Sejnowski

Biography

Terrence ‘Terry’ Sejnowski is a Distinguished Professor at the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute, University of California, San Diego. He received his Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School. Before joining UC San Diego, he was a professor of Biophysics at Johns Hopkins University. Sejnowski currently holds the Francis Crick Chair at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. He has significantly contributed to computational neuroscience and is co-director of the Institute for Neural Computation. Sejnowski is also the founding editor-in-chief of Neural Computation and authored the influential book “The Computational Brain,” which introduced concepts of distributed representations in neural networks to a wider audience, including neuroscientists.

Research Interests