Ila Fiete

Ila Fiete
Fiete speaks to the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology in 2020
Born	Mumbai, India
Nationality	American
Alma mater	B.S. University of Michigan, M.A. and Ph.D. Harvard University
Known for	Modelling neural computations that underlie short-term memory, integration, and inference
Awards	2017 CIFAR Senior Fellow 2016 Howard Hughes Faculty Scholar 2013 CNS Excellence Award for Teaching - College of Natural Sciences University of Texas at Austin 2011–2013 McKnight Scholar 2013 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator 2010 Searle Scholar 2009 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow in Neuroscience
Scientific career
Fields	Physics and computational neuroscience
Institutions	McGovern Institute at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thesis	Learning and coding in biological neural networks (2004)
Doctoral advisor	Sebastian Seung

Ila Fiete is an Indian–American physicist and computational neuroscientist as well as a Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences within the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Fiete builds theoretical models and analyses neural data and to uncover how neural circuits perform computations and how the brain represents and manipulates information involved in memory and reasoning.