Tomaso Poggio — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

One of the most cited computational scientists.
Eugene McDermott Professor at MIT.
Director of the NSF Center for Brains, Minds and Machines at MIT.
Introduced regularization as a mathematical framework for vision and learning from data.
With D. Marr, introduced the idea of levels of analysis in computational neuroscience.
Involved in starting or investing in high tech companies including Deep Mind, Mobileye, Arris Pharmaceutical, nFX, Imagen, and Digital Persona.
Serves as a director of Mobileye.
Recipient of the 2003 Gabor Award, 2009 Okawa Prize, and 2014 Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience.

Biography

Tomaso Poggio is the Eugene McDermott Professor at MIT and serves as the director of the NSF Center for Brains, Minds and Machines, a collaborative institution involving MIT and Harvard. He is also a member of both MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and the McGovern Brain Institute. His academic distinctions include being a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Founding Fellow of AAAI, and a founding member of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research.