Gabriel A. Silva
Gabriel Alejandro Silva is a theoretical and computational neuroscientist and bioengineer, Professor of Bioengineering at the Jacobs School of Engineering and Professor of Neurosciences in the School of Medicine at the University of California San Diego (UCSD). He is also the Founding Director of the Center for Engineered Natural Intelligence (CENI) at UCSD, and is a Jacobs Faculty Endowed Scholar in Engineering.
Gabriel A. Silva | |
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| Citizenship | United States, Canada |
| Known for | Computational and theoretical neuroscience. Calcium and astrocyte neurobiology. Nanotechnology. |
| Awards | College of Fellows of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE; 2016)
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Y.C. Fung Young Investigator Medal (2008) Wallace Coulter Foundation Early Career Award (2007) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Toronto
University of Illinois at Chicago Northwestern University |
| Academic advisors | Samuel Stupp, Northwestern University
Jack Kessler, Northwestern University David Pepperberg, University of Illinois at Chicago Elizabeth Theriault, University of Toronto |
| Academic work | |
| Main interests | Computational and theoretical neuroscience. Systems neuroscience. Applied mathematics. Machine learning. |
| Website | www |
He holds additional appointments in the Department of NanoEngineering, the BioCircuits Institute, the Neurosciences Graduate Program, Computational Neurobiology Program, and Institute for Neural Computation.