James DiCarlo

James Joseph DiCarlo (born c. 1967) is an American neuroscientist currently serving as the Peter de Florez Professor of Neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

James J. DiCarlo
Born	c. 1967 (age 57–58)
Alma mater	Northwestern University Johns Hopkins University
Known for	Object recognition, ventral stream
Awards	Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship McKnight Scholar Award in Neuroscience
Scientific career
Fields	Neuroscience
Institutions	Johns Hopkins University Baylor College of Medicine MIT
Thesis	The spatial and temporal structure of neural receptive fields in area 3b of primary somatosensory cortex in the alert monkey (1998)
Doctoral advisors	Kenneth O. Johnson Steven S. Hsiao
Website	dicarlolab.mit.edu

Biography

DiCarlo received his BS in biomedical engineering at Northwestern University in 1990. He then attended the MD PhD program at Johns Hopkins University and graduated in 1998.^[1] After spending two years as a postdoctoral researcher in primate visual neurophysiology at Baylor College of Medicine, he joined the faculty at MIT in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department.