Tomaso Poggio

Tomaso Poggio is the Eugene McDermott Professor at MIT and one of the founders of computational neuroscience. His work bridges neuroscience and artificial intelligence, seeking to understand the computational principles underlying human intelligence. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences, Poggio has trained generations of researchers at the intersection of biology and computation. His contributions to The Future of Science focused on the mechanisms of intelligence and learning.

Poggio’s research has produced foundational results in both biological and artificial vision systems. He developed the first computational model of visual recognition in the brain and pioneered the theory of regularization networks, which became a cornerstone of machine learning. His Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines at MIT brings together neuroscientists and computer scientists to develop a unified theory of intelligence. His recent work on deep learning theory seeks to explain why deep neural networks generalize so well despite having more parameters than training examples.