Terrence J. Sejnowski

Terrence J. Sejnowski is the Francis Crick Professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, where he directs the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory. He is also a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, San Diego, and directs its Institute for Neural Computation. Sejnowski earned a Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University and completed postdoctoral research in biology at Princeton and neurobiology at Harvard Medical School.

A pioneer in computational neuroscience and artificial intelligence, Sejnowski has published more than 500 scientific papers and 12 books. His published works include The Computational Brain, coauthored with Patricia Churchland; The Deep Learning Revolution; ChatGPT and the Future of AI: The Deep Language Revolution; and Uncommon Sense Teaching, coauthored with Barbara Oakley and Beth Rogowsky.