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Dr. Seung is also Professor of Computational Neuroscience in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and the Department of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Adjunct Assistant Neurobiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. He studied theoretical physics with David Nelson at Harvard University, and completed postdoctoral training with Haim Sompolinsky at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Before joining the MIT faculty, he was a member of the Theoretical Physics Department at Bell Laboratories. He has been a Sloan Research Fellow, a Packard Fellow, and a McKnight Scholar.
RESEARCH ABSTRACT SUMMARY:
Sebastian Seung studies neural networks using mathematical models, computer algorithms, and circuits of biological neurons in vitro. His interests include computational neuroanatomy, the idea of synaptic plasticity as an optimization algorithm, and persistent activity in neural integrators.
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