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Tomaso Poggio is the Eugene McDermott Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT and a director of the NSF Center for Brains, Minds and Machines. He is a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and the McGovern Brain Institute. Poggio has made significant contributions to computational neuroscience with a focus on biophysical and behavioral studies of the visual system and the computational analysis of vision and learning in both humans and machines. His research is interdisciplinary, integrating mathematics, learning theory, and computer vision, particularly in the area of computational neuroscience relevant to the visual cortex. Throughout his career, he has received several prestigious awards, including the Laurea Honoris Causa from the University of Pavia and the Okawa Prize. As a Corporate Fellow of Thinking Machines Corporation, he has also played a role in launching and investing in high-tech companies.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Cambridge, MA
Lead research in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences focusing on computational neuroscience.