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Prof. Tomaso Poggio

Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, M.I.T. Center for Biological and Computational Learning, M.I.T.

Professor Tomaso Poggio is the Uncas and Helen Whitaker Professor at MIT, where he directs research in computational vision and machine learning in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

Professor Poggio received his doctorate in theoretical physics from the University of Genoa in 1970, at the Max Planck Institute from 1971 to 1981 when he left the research Professorship there to became Professor at MIT. In the years since then, he has received a number of distinguished international awards in the scientific community - these include the Premio Luigi Carlo Rossi from Elsag Elettronica, the Columbus Prize from the International Institute of Communications, the Otto-Hahn-Medaille for Outstanding Young Scientist from the Max Planck Society, and the Max Planck Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany) in 1992.

Co-Director, since 1992, of CBCL, the Center for Biological and Computational Learning at MIT, Professor Poggio is the author of several hundreds papers in areas ranging from psychophysics and biophysics to information processing in man and machine, artificial intelligence, machine vision and learning.  Serving on the editorial boards of a number of leading interdisciplinary journals, Professor Poggio is a Founding Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, an Honorary Associate of the Neuroscience Research Program at Rockefeller University. He was a member of the Kuratorium of the Max Planck Society (for MPIfK, Tuebingen), a member of the Biomedical Engineering Advisory Council at Johns Hopkins University, a director of the Board of Trustees of the Neurosciences Research Foundation and a chair or co-chair of several conferences.

nternationally known for his work on the visual system of the fly, nonlinear systems theory, stereo vision and introducing regularization theory as a framework for the problem of early vision, Professor Poggio and his group have spent the past ten years developing a theory of networks for learning in the framework of multivariate function approximation and applying them to a variety of application domains from signal processing to multimedia database search, from finance to bioinformatics and neuroscience, from computer graphics to computer vision for object detection and recognition.

Prof. Poggio has also been active in the business sector for a number of years. A former Corporate Fellow of Thinking Machines Corporation, the company which designed and manufactured the Connection Machine, Tomaso Poggio was a member of the Scientific Board of Arris Pharmaceutical, a rational drug design company. He was a member of the STEP project, a technology evaluation effort launched by Citicorp and comprising 12 major experts from the faculty of the main US Universities.  He is a founder of nFX Interactive, a computer graphics company, which was sold to Adobe, and of PHZ Partners, where he has played an active role in guiding the business and setting its direction in financial research. He was a member of the board of Digital Persona, a Silicon Valley company and of GenTech, a Tokyo-based Japanese company; he is an advisor to Cognitens, an Israeli start-up and to Imagen, a MIT start-up.