- Royce Fellowship
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Faculty Sponsor: John Donoghue
Working with Professor John Donoghue, Liam will research the ways information is represented in the brain. Paninski will record the activity of large numbers of brain cells and study neural coding through information-theoretic approaches. He hopes to illuminate how the brain realizes perception, consciousness and coordinated behavior.
Liam earned his Ph.D. from New York University. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Statistics department at Columbia University, and the Co-Director of the Grossman Center for the Statistics of Mind. He is also a member of the Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, the Kavli Institute for Brain Science, and the Doctoral Program in Neurobiology and Behavior. Previously, he was a senior research fellow at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, at University College London.