James J. DiCarlo | |
Field: | Neuroscience |
Work Institutions: | Johns Hopkins University Baylor College of Medicine MIT |
Alma Mater: | Northwestern University Johns Hopkins University |
Thesis Title: | The spatial and temporal structure of neural receptive fields in area 3b of primary somatosensory cortex in the alert monkey |
Thesis Url: | https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_2064699 |
Thesis Year: | 1998 |
Doctoral Advisors: | Kenneth O. Johnson Steven S. Hsiao |
Known For: | Object recognition, ventral stream |
Prizes: | Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship McKnight Scholar Award in Neuroscience |
Website: | dicarlolab.mit.edu |
James Joseph DiCarlo (born 1967) is an American neuroscientist currently serving as the Peter de Florez Professor of Neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
DiCarlo received his BS in biomedical engineering at Northwestern University in 1990. He then attended the MD PhD program at Johns Hopkins University and graduated in 1998.[1] After spending two years as a postdoctoral researcher in primate visual neurophysiology at Baylor College of Medicine, he joined the faculty at MIT in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department.