
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (BCS)
Special Seminar
Neurobiology of Inference
Speaker(s)
Description
TBA
Speaker Bio
Mehrdad Jazayeri joined the MIT faculty in January 2013 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and an Investigator in the McGovern Institute. Jazayeri, who is originally from Iran, obtained a B.Sc in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in Tehran. He received his PhD from New York University, where he studied with J. Anthony Movshon, winning the 2007 Dean’s award for the most outstanding dissertation in the university. After graduating, he was awarded a Helen Hay Whitney fellowship to join the laboratory of Michael Shadlen at the University of Washington, where he was a postdoctoral researcher.