Society of Harvard Engineers and Scientists Honor Scholar (1985)
Harvard-MIT HST Fellowship Award (1986)
McDonnell Pew Foundation Young Investigator Research Award (1996)
NSF Faculty Career Development (CAREER) Award (2000)
ICCV Helmholtz Prize (2013)
Background
Professor in Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Faculty member in the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC) and Machine Learning Department
Adjunct faculty member of the Department of Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh
Director of Lee Laboratory for Biological and Machine Intelligence Research at CMU
Director of Intercollege Undergraduate Minor in Neural Computation at CMU
Coordinator of Undergraduate Training Fellowship in Computational Neuroscience (Program in Neural Computation)
Director of Peking University - Carnegie Mellon University Summer Program in Computer Science
Director of Tsinghua University - Carnegie Mellon University Summer Program in Computer Science
Research interests: computational neuroscience, computational vision, neurophysiology of the primate visual systems, active and adaptive vision, hierarchical coding and inference, mid-level vision, development of infant vision, learning and adaptation, structure of neural codes