Terrence Sejnowski received a Ph.D. in Physics from Princeton University. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School before being appointed to a faculty position in the Department of Biophysics at Johns Hopkins University in 1981. He moved to La Jolla in 1989 and is currently on the faculty of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and the University of California at San Diego.
Sejnowski is a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine, and Inventors and was an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He was awarded the Brain Prize in 2024.
Sejnowski pioneered computational neuroscience and learning algorithms in neural network models. His research aims to understand the computational resources of brains and build linking principles from brains to behavior. He is a leader in NeuroAI, the recent convergence between neuroscience and AI. His laboratory developed Independent Component Analysis (ICA) for blind source separation, which has many applications in signal processing and is universally used for analyzing brain imaging in electroencephalography (EEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).
Professional position
- Francis Crick Chair, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
- Distinguished Professor of Neurobiology, Department of Neurobiology, University of California, San Diego
Subject groups
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Computer Sciences
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, vision
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Multicellular Organisms
Behavioural neuroscience, Physiology incl biophysics of cells (non-clinical)
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Engineering and Materials Science
Communications incl information theory
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Molecules of Life
Biophysics and structural biology
