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Tyler Bonnen

Education:

A.A., Chemistry, Miami Dade Community College; B.A., Comparative Literature & Chemistry, Columbia University; Ph.D., Cognitive Neuroscience, Stanford University

Dissertation:

Situating theories of neural function within a biologically plausible optimization framework

Thesis Advisor:

Anthony Wagner, Professor of Psychology, Stanford University and Dan Yamins, Professor of Psychology and Computer Science, Stanford University

Research Topic:

Building and evaluating biologically plausible computational models of human memory

Mentor:

Alexei Efros, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley and Charan Ranganath, Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of California, Davis

Current Position:

President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley

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