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Neuroscientist

James J. DiCarlo
Born c. 1967 (age 57–58)
Alma mater Northwestern UniversityJohns Hopkins University
Known for Object recognition, ventral stream
Awards Alfred P. Sloan Research FellowshipMcKnight Scholar Award in Neuroscience
Scientific career
Fields Neuroscience
Institutions Johns Hopkins UniversityBaylor College of MedicineMIT
Thesis The spatial and temporal structure of neural receptive fields in area 3b of primary somatosensory cortex in the alert monkey (1998)
Doctoral advisors Kenneth O. JohnsonSteven S. Hsiao
Website dicarlolab.mit.edu

James Joseph DiCarlo (born c. 1967) is an American neuroscientist currently serving as the Peter de Florez Professor of Neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

DiCarlo received his BS in biomedical engineering at Northwestern University in 1990. He then attended the MD PhD program at Johns Hopkins University and graduated in 1998.[1] After spending two years as a postdoctoral researcher in primate visual neurophysiology at Baylor College of Medicine, he joined the faculty at MIT in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department.

  1. ^ "James DiCarlo". Simons Foundation. Retrieved 8 May 2017.