Terrence J. Sejnowski (M'83-SM'92) received the B.S. degree in physics from the Case-Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, in 1968, the M.A. degree in physics from Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, in 1970, and the Ph.D. degree in physics from Princeton University in 1978.From 1978 to 1979 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Biology at Princeton University, and from 1979 to 1982 a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School. In 1982 he joined the faculty of the Department of Biophysics at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. He is currently an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and a Professor at The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, San Diego, CA, where he directs the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory. He is also a Professor of Biology and an Adjunct Professor in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego, where he is also Director of the Institute for Neural Computation and Director of the McDonnell-Pew Center for Cognitive Neuroscience. His primary interests are in the theory and applications of neural systems.
Dr. Sejnowski received a Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1984. In 1988 he founded the journal Neural Computation (M.I.T. Press). For 1993-1994 he was a Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Scholar at the California Institute of Technology.