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Tomaso A. Poggio is the Eugene McDermott Professor in the Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences at MIT and the director of the new NSF Center for Brains, Minds and Machines at MIT, with managing partners at Harvard University and Cornell University. He is a member of both the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and of the McGovern Brain Institute. His research focuses on finance, with contributions spanning computational neuroscience, vision, and learning theory. He has developed influential models of visual recognition and introduced regularization as a framework for solving vision and learning problems. His work is interdisciplinary, bridging brains and computers, and has been recognized through numerous honors and awards.
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Tomaso Poggio is a McDermott Professor in Brain Sciences at MIT, specializing in Machine Learning, Learning Theory, AI, Neuroscience, and Computational Vision. His research explores the intersection of computational models and biological systems, focusing on object recognition, stereo vision, and learning mechanisms. Poggio's work includes developing hierarchical models of visual processing, regularization theory for neural networks, and methods for human motion recognition. He has contributed to advancements in support vector machines, cooperative algorithms for stereo disparity, and gene expression analysis for cancer diagnosis. His research emphasizes the mathematical foundations of learning and the development of trainable systems for object detection.