Fiete speaks to the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology in 2020
Born
Mumbai, India
Nationality
American
Alma mater
B.S. University of Michigan, M.A. and Ph.D. Harvard University
Known for
Modelling neural computations that underlie short-term memory, integration, and inference
Awards
2017 CIFAR Senior Fellow
2016 Howard Hughes Faculty Scholar
2013 CNS Excellence Award for Teaching - College of Natural Sciences University of Texas at Austin
2011–2013 McKnight Scholar
2013 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator
2010 Searle Scholar
2009 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow in Neuroscience
Scientific career
Fields
Physics and computational neuroscience
Institutions
McGovern Institute at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thesis
Learning and coding in biological neural networks(2004)
Doctoral advisor
Sebastian Seung
Ila Fiete is an Indian–American physicist and computational neuroscientist as well as a Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences within the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Fiete builds theoretical models and analyses neural data and to uncover how neural circuits perform computations and how the brain represents and manipulates information involved in memory and reasoning.
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