Terry Sejnowski

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Terry Sejnowski
Born
Terrence Joseph Sejnowski

(1947-08-13) 13 August 1947 (age 76)
P. Read Montague
Websitewww.salk.edu/scientist/terrence-sejnowski

Terrence Joseph Sejnowski (born 13 August 1947) is the

Salk Institute for Biological Studies where he directs the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory and is the director of the Crick-Jacobs center for theoretical and computational biology. He has performed pioneering research in neural networks and computational neuroscience.[1][2][3][4]

Sejnowski is also Professor of

Institute for Neural Computation
.

With Barbara Oakley, he co-created and taught Learning How To Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects, the world's most popular online course,[5] available on Coursera.[6]

Education and early life

Born in Cleveland in 1947,[7] Sejnowski received his B.S. in physics in 1968 from the Case Western Reserve University, M.A. in physics from Princeton University with John Archibald Wheeler, and a PhD in physics from Princeton University in 1978 with John Hopfield.

While in Princeton for his M.A. in physics, he analyzed the strength of gravitational waves from all known sources at the time, and the required sensitivity needed for detection. He noticed that all gravitational wave detectors were 1000x too insensitive to detect, and, thinking that the requisite detectors would not appear until 30 years later, decided to go into a different field.[8]

Career and research

From 1978–1979 Sejnowski was a

San Diego, California in 1988. He was an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
from 1991 to 2018.

He has had a long-standing affiliation with the California Institute of Technology, as a Wiersma Visiting Professor of Neurobiology in 1987, as a Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Scholar in 1993 and as a part-time Visiting Professor 1995–1998. In 2004 he was named the Francis Crick Professor at the Salk Institute and the director of the Crick-Jacobs Center for Theoretical and Computational Biology.

Honours and awards

Sejnowski received a Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1984 from the

Gruber Neuroscience Prize.[20] In 2024, he was awarded The Brain Prize for pioneering work in theoretical neuroscience alongside Larry Abbott and Haim Sompolinsky.[21]

Neural networks

His research in

non-profit organization that oversees the annual NeurIPS Conference. This interdisciplinary meeting brings together researchers from many disciplines, including biology, physics, mathematics, and engineering
.

He co-invented the

Independent Component Analysis (ICA)[25]
which has been widely adopted in machine learning, signal processing and data mining.

Research

The long-range goal of Sejnowski's research is to understand the computational resources of

signaling using Monte Carlo methods (MCell).[26]

The central issues being addressed are how

blind separation using ICA. The EEGLAB public software which was as of 2012 the most popular software for processing EEG data was originally developed in his laboratory.[27]

Symposia

He has participated and spoken at the Beyond Belief symposia in 2006 and 2007. He participated in the conference Waking Up to Sleep at the Salk Institute in February 2007 (online video available).[28]

Membership

Sejnowski was a member of the Advisory Committee to the Director of the National Institutes of Health for the Brain Research through Application of Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative,[29] announced by President Obama on 2 April 2013. Their BRAIN 2025 report[30] was released by NIH on 5 June 2014 and has been used to prioritize NIH BRAIN Initiative projects. He was previously part of a team of engineers and neuroscientists who developed the Brain Activity Map Project, which served as the template for the BRAIN Initiative.[31]

Authorship

In 1992 Sejnowski co-authored The Computational Brain with Patricia Churchland[32] and in 2002 the book Liars, Lovers, and Heroes; What the New Brain Science Reveals About How We Become Who We are with Steven R. Quartz.[33] His most recent book, The Deep Learning Revolution, was published by the MIT Press in June 2018.

He has co-created (with Professor Barbara Oakley) and teaches Learning How to Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects, a massive open online course offered on Coursera. The course had its first three runs in August and October 2014 and January 2015, when it attracted approximately 300,000 students. In 2015, enrollment in the course reached 1 million[5] and a total of about 2 million students as of August 2017 and 3 million students as of 2021.

References

  1. ^ "Terrence Sejnowski". Salk.edu. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
  2. ^ "CNL : The Computational Neurobiology Laboratory". Cnl.salk.edu. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
  3. ^ "Terrence J. Sejnowski". Biology.ucsd.edu. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
  4. ^ "Behavior and Our Brain - Mysteries of the Brain - Terry Sejnowski - Brain, Behavior, Neuroscience, Sejnowski - sciencestage.com Medicine". sciencestage.com. Archived from the original on 12 June 2010. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  5. ^ a b Markoff, John (29 December 2015). "The Most Popular Online Course Teaches You to Learn". The New York Times. Retrieved 3 January 2016. The world's most popular online course is a general introduction to the art of learning, taught jointly by an educator and a neuroscientist.
  6. ^ "Learning How to Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects".
  7. ^ James A. Anderson, Edward Rosenfeld eds. (2000) Talking Nets: An Oral History of Neural Networks. Chapter 14. MIT Press
  8. ISBN 978-981-327-175-3
    .
  9. ^ "IEEE Fellows 2000 | IEEE Communications Society".
  10. ^ Design Futures Council Senior Fellows "Senior Fellows :: DesignIntelligence". Archived from the original on 6 November 2007. Retrieved 6 November 2007.
  11. ^ Institute of Medicine "NIMH · Institute of Medicine of the National Academies Announces New Members". Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  12. ^ "Terrence Sejnowski". Nasonline.org. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
  13. ^ "72 New Members Chosen By Academy". 8.nationalacademies.org. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
  14. ^ "NAE Elects 68 Members and Nine Foreign Members". Nae.edu. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
  15. ^ "National Academy of Inventors". Academyofinventors.org. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
  16. ^ "Terrence Sejnowski, May 7, 2018". Engineering-Driven Medicine Distinguished Lecture. Stony Brook University College of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
  17. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). www.amacad.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 May 2013. Retrieved 17 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  18. ^ "APS Fellowship". Aps.org. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
  19. ^ "Awards". Sfn.org. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
  20. ^ Gruber Neuroscience Prize 2022
  21. ^ Meyer, M. (2024, March 5). Pioneering work in computational and theoretical neuroscience is awarded the world’s largest brain research prize. The Lundbeck Foundation.
  22. ^ Ackley, D. H. Hinton, G. E. Sejnowski, T. J. A Learning Algorithm for Boltzmann Machines*, Cognitive Science, 9, 147–169, 1985
  23. ^ Sejnowski, T. J. Rosenberg, C. R. Parallel Networks That Learn to Pronounce English Text, Complex Systems, 1, 145–168, 198
  24. ^ Lehky, S. R. Sejnowski, T. J. Network Model of Shape-from-Shading: Neural Function Arises from Both Receptive and Projective Fields, Nature, 333, 452–454, 1988
  25. ^ Bell, A. J. Sejnowski, T. J. An Information-Maximization Approach to Blind Separation and Blind Deconvolution, Neural Computation, 7, 1129–1159, 1995
  26. ^ Coggan, J. S. Bartol, T. M. Jr. Esquenazi, E. I. Stiles, J. R. Lamont, S. Martone, M. E. Berg, D. K. Ellisman, M. H. Sejnowski, T. J. Evidence for Ectopic Neurotransmission at a Neuronal Synapse, Science, 39, 446–451, 2005
  27. ^ Makeig, S., Westerfield, M., Jung, T.-P., Enghoff, S., Townsend, J., Courchesne, E., Sejnowski, T. J. Dynamic brain sources of visual evoked responses. Science, 295: 690–694(2002)
  28. David Dinges; Dan Kripke; Giulio Tononi (February 2007). "Waking Up To Sleep"
    (Several conference videos). The Science Network. Retrieved 25 January 2008.
  29. ^ BRAIN Initiative Advisory Committee "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 April 2013. Retrieved 14 April 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  30. ^ "BRAIN 2025 Report – Brain Initiative". Braininitiative.nih.gov. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
  31. ^ Alivisatos, A. P., Chun, M., Church, G.M., Deisseroth, K., Donoghue, J.P., Greenspan, R.J., McEuen, P.L., Roukes, M.L., Sejnowski, T. J., Weiss, P.S., Yuste, R., The Brain Activity Map, Science, 339, 1284–1285 (2013).
  32. ^ Churchland, P. S. and Sejnowski, T. J., The Computational Brain, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (1992).
  33. ISBN 9780060001490
    . Retrieved 27 August 2015.
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