Tomaso A. Poggio, is a physicist whose research has always been between brains and computers. It is now focused on the mathematics of deep learning and on the computational neuroscience of the visual cortext. He is the Eugene McDermott Professor in the Dept. of Brain & Cognitive Sciences at MIT and the co-director of the NSF Center for Brains, Minds and Machines at MIT. Among other awards he received the 2014 Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience and the IEEE 2017 Azriel Rosenfeld Lifetime Achievement Award. A former Corporate Fellow of Thinking Machines Corporation, a former director of PHZ Capital Partners, Inc. and of Mobileye, he was involved in starting, or investing in, several other high tech companies including Arris Pharmaceutical, nFX, Imagen, Digital Persona, Deep Mind and Orcam.
