Tomasio Poggio

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Tomasio Poggio is Eugene McDermott Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, both at MIT. He is also Co-Director of the Center for Biological and Computational Learning and was appointed Investigator immediately after the establishment of the McGovern Institute in 2000. He joined the MIT faculty in 1981.

Poggio's original training was as a theoretical physicist (he received a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from the University of Genoa in 1970) and his current research focuses on the application of new learning techniques to time series analysis, object recognition, adaptive control and computer graphics.

Poggio is a Foreign Member of the Italian Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.