Rajesh P. N. Rao
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Rajesh P. N. Rao (born 2 July 1970 in
Dr. Rao is a researcher in the fields of computational neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and brain-computer interfacing. With Dana Ballard, he proposed the predictive coding model of brain function in 1999.[2] He has contributed to Bayesian models of perception and decision making. In brain-computer interfacing, Prof. Rao and his collaborators were the first to demonstrate direct brain control of a humanoid robot in 2007.[3][4]
In the first demonstration of human brain-to-brain communication in August 2013, Rao wearing an electrical brain-signal reading cap triggered the movement of his colleague Andrea Stocco's hand via the Internet, allowing their brains to cooperate to solve a computer game.[5] The demonstration was subsequently replicated across other pairs of humans,[6] and extended to other tasks,[7] and to a BrainNet for more than two brains.[8]
Rao also works on the decipherment of the Indus script.[9] By comparing the entropy of the Indus script with entropies of linguistic scripts such as those for Sumerian and Old Tamil, and nonlinguistic sequences such as DNA and a programming language, his work suggested that the Indus script behaves more like a linguistic script than nonlinguistic sequences.[10][11] He has also given a TED talk on this topic where he backed the Dravidian hypothesis put forward by Iravatham Mahadevan.[12]
Rao is the author of the book Brain-Computer Interfacing (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and co-editor of two volumes, Probabilistic Models of the Brain (MIT Press, 2002) and Bayesian Brain (MIT Press, 2007). He has given a TEDx talk on "Brain co-processors: When AI meets the Brain."[13]
With Prof. Adrienne Fairhall, Rao offered the first massive open online course in computational neuroscience in 2013. The course continues to be offered on Coursera.[14]
Rao graduated summa cum laude from Angelo State University in 1992 with a B.S. degree in Computer Science/Mathematics. He then attended the University of Rochester where he earned his Master's degree (1994) and Ph.D. (1998) in Computer Science.[1] He was a Sloan Postdoctoral Fellow at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies before joining the University of Washington faculty in 2000.
Awards
- Sloan Faculty Fellowship, 2001 [1]
- Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering, 2002 [1]
- NSF CAREER Award 2002 [15]
- ONR Young Investigator Award, 2003 [16]
- Guggenheim Fellowship 2016 [17]
References
- ^ a b c d "Curriculum Vitae: Rajesh P.N. Rao" (PDF). Washington.edu. September 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-29. Retrieved 2014-11-25.
- ^ Predictive coding in the visual cortex
- S2CID 849280.
- ^ Sandhana, Lakshmi (25 October 2010). "Robot reads minds to train itself". BBC News.
- ^ Vergano, Dan (28 August 2013). "Researcher remotely controls colleague's body with brain". USA Today.
- PMID 25372285.
- PMID 26398267.
- PMID 30992474.
- ^ Noam Hassenfeld (June 2023). "Cracking the Indus Code". Vox.com. Unexplainable. Retrieved 15 June 2023.
- S2CID 15565405.
- S2CID 423521.
- ^ A Rosetta Stone for a lost language
- ^ Brain Co-Processors: When AI Meets the Brain
- ^ Computational Neuroscience
- ^ "Babies Learn From Robots While Robots Learn From Babies- All Images | NSF - National Science Foundation". www.nsf.gov.
- ^ "Business News Live, Share Market News - Read Latest Finance News, IPO, Mutual Funds News". The Economic Times.
- ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Rajesh P.N. Rao".
External links
- Home page and publications
- fusione mentale
- Rajesh Rao at TED
- TED talk: A Rosetta Stone for a lost language (TED2011)
- TEDx talk: Brain Co-Processors: When AI Meets the Brain (TEDx Berkeley 2020)