About Liam Paninski
Born 1978. Liam Paninski is a neuroscientist, statistician and mathematician.
Liam Paninski (born 1978) is an American computational neuroscientist who specializes in neural data science. He is a professor in the Departments of Statistics and Neuroscience at Columbia University, where he co-directs the Grossman Center for the Statistics of Mind. Paninski's research focuses on using statistics to decipher electrical signals from the brain.
Education Paninski attended Brown University, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in neuroscience in 1999. At Brown, Paninski was introduced to neuroscience research in the lab of John Donoghue. Paninski completed his Ph.D. in neural science at New York University's Center for Neural Science in 2003 under the direction of Eero Simoncelli.
Career Paninski began teaching at Columbia in 2005.
In 2006 Paninski was named in MIT Technology Reviews list of Innovators Under 35. He received a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2007.
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