People | Division of Biology and Biological Engineering

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Computation and Neural Systems;

Learning and Computation

Bren Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Biology; Allen V. C. Davis and Lenabelle Davis Leadership Chair, Caltech Brain Imaging Center; Director, Caltech Brain Imaging Center

Computation and Neural Systems; Evolutionary and Organismal Biology; Neuroscience;

Psychological and neurological investigations of human emotion and social cognition

John M. Allman

Frank P. Hixon Professor of Neurobiology

Computation and Neural Systems; Evolutionary and Organismal Biology; Neuroscience;

Neurophysiology, Vision, Audition, Olfaction

Aaron Ames

Bren Professor of Mechanical and Civil Engineering and Control and Dynamical Systems

Computation and Neural Systems;

Robotics, nonlinear control, hybrid systems and cyber-physical systems

Anima Anandkumar

Bren Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences

Computation and Neural Systems;

Large-scale machine learning, non-convex optimization and high-dimensional statistics

Richard A. Andersen

James G. Boswell Professor of Neuroscience; T&C Chen Brain-Machine Interface Center Leadership Chair; Director, T&C Brain-Machine Interface Center

Computation and Neural Systems; Neuroscience;

Neural mechanisms for planning, decision making, neural prosthetics, and brain repair

David J. Anderson

Seymour Benzer Professor of Biology; Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience Leadership Chair; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Director, Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience

Computation and Neural Systems; Developmental Biology and Genetics; Evolutionary and Organismal Biology; Neuroscience;

Genetic dissection of neural circuits controlling emotional behaviors

Alan Barr

Professor of Computer Science

Computation and Neural Systems;

Imaging

Jehoshua Bruck

Gordon and Betty Moore Professor of Computation and Neural Systems and Electrical Engineering

Computation and Neural Systems;

Information and Biology

Joel Burdick

Richard L. and Dorothy M. Hayman Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Bioengineering; Jet Propulsion Laboratory Research Scientist

Computation and Neural Systems;

Artificial Systems, Robotics

Colin Camerer

Robert Kirby Professor of Behavioral Economics; T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Leadership Chair; Director T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience

Computation and Neural Systems;

Psychophysics, Decision, Behavior

Michael H. Dickinson

Esther M. and Abe M. Zarem Professor of Bioengineering and Aeronautics; Executive Officer for Biology and Biological Engineering

Biological Engineering; Computation and Neural Systems; Evolutionary and Organismal Biology; Neuroscience;

Neurophysiology, Decision, Behavior

Michael B. Elowitz

Professor of Biology and Bioengineering; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Biochemistry, Structural, and Molecular Cell Biology; Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics; Biological Engineering; Computation and Neural Systems; Developmental Biology and Genetics; Systems Biology;

Synthetic and systems biology; gene circuit dynamics in cell and developmental circuits.

Viviana Gradinaru

Professor of Neuroscience and Biological Engineering; Investigator, Heritage Medical Research Institute; Director, Center for Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, 2017-.

Biochemistry, Structural, and Molecular Cell Biology; Biological Engineering; Computation and Neural Systems; Evolutionary and Organismal Biology; Neuroscience; Systems Biology;

Neurotechnologies to understand and repair nervous systems

Elizabeth J. Hong

Assistant Professor of Neuroscience

Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics; Computation and Neural Systems; Developmental Biology and Genetics; Evolutionary and Organismal Biology; Neuroscience;

Synaptic and circuit mechanisms of olfaction.

Henry A. Lester

Professor of Biology

Biological Engineering; Computation and Neural Systems; Evolutionary and Organismal Biology; Neuroscience;

Neuroscience and Biophysics

Carlos Lois

Research Professor of Biology

Biochemistry, Structural, and Molecular Cell Biology; Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics; Biological Engineering; Computation and Neural Systems; Evolutionary and Organismal Biology; Neuroscience;

Assembly of Brain Circuits and the Cellular Mechanisms of Behavior.

Carver Mead

Gordon and Betty Moore Professor of Engineering and Applied Science, Emeritus

Computation and Neural Systems;

Markus Meister

Anne P. and Benjamin F. Biaggini Professor of Biological Sciences

Biological Engineering; Computation and Neural Systems; Evolutionary and Organismal Biology; Neuroscience; Systems Biology;

My goal is to understand the function of neuronal circuits. By "circuit" I mean a brain structure with many neurons that has some anatomical and functional identity and exchanges signals with other brain circuits. Most of our work has focused on the retina and the olfactory bulb, with some explorations into the visual cortex and the insect antennal lobe.

Dean Mobbs

Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience; Chen Scholar

Computation and Neural Systems;

Social, Computational and Affective Neuroscience; Neuroecology and Neurophilosophy

John O'Doherty

Professor of Psychology

Computation and Neural Systems;

Decision, Behavior, Neuroscience

Yuki Oka

Professor of Biology and Chen Scholar

Computation and Neural Systems; Neuroscience;

Understanding the neural and molecular basis of motivated behaviors toward homeostatic regulation.

Pietro Perona

Allen E. Puckett Professor of Electrical Engineering

Computation and Neural Systems;

Vision, Audition, Olfaction, Learning and Computation, Psychophysics, Decision, Behavior, Artificial Systems, Robotics

David Prober

Professor of Biology

Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics; Computation and Neural Systems; Developmental Biology and Genetics; Evolutionary and Organismal Biology; Neuroscience;

Genetic and Neural Circuits that Regulate Sleep

Steven Quartz

Professor of Philosophy

Computation and Neural Systems;

Decision, Behavior

Antonio Rangel

Bing Professor of Neuroscience, Behavioral Biology, and Economics; Head Faculty in Residence

Computation and Neural Systems;

Neuroeconomics

Shinsuke (Shin) Shimojo

Gertrude Baltimore Professor of Experimental Psychology

Computation and Neural Systems; Neuroscience;

Psychophysics

Thanos Siapas

Professor of Computation and Neural Systems; Executive Officer for Computation and Neural Systems

Biological Engineering; Computation and Neural Systems; Evolutionary and Organismal Biology; Neuroscience;

Network Mechanisms of Learning and Memory, Systems Neuroscience, Computational Neuroscience, Machine Learning, Bioengineering, Neurotechnology.

Paul W. Sternberg

Bren Professor of Biology

Biological Engineering; Computation and Neural Systems; Developmental Biology and Genetics; Evolutionary and Organismal Biology; Microbiology and Immunology; Neuroscience; Systems Biology;

Systems biology of C. elegans development; Neural circuits underlying sex and sleep; Nematode functional genomics and chemical ecology; Text mining.

Matt Thomson

Assistant Professor of Computational Biology; Investigator, Heritage Medical Research Institute

Biological Engineering; Computation and Neural Systems; Developmental Biology and Genetics; Evolutionary and Organismal Biology; Systems Biology;

Single-Cell Genomics

Doris Y. Tsao

Professor of Biology; T&C Chen Center for Systems Neuroscience Leadership Chair; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Director, T&C Chen Center for Systems Neuroscience

Biological Engineering; Computation and Neural Systems; Evolutionary and Organismal Biology; Neuroscience; Systems Biology;

Neural Mechanisms for Visual Perception

Yisong Yue

Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences

Computation and Neural Systems;

Theory and application of statistical machine learning, artificial intelligence.