Peter Dayan
Dayan joined MIT as an assistant professor in 1995 after studying mathematics at Cambridge, earning an Edinburgh doctorate and conducting postdoctoral research at Salk and Toronto. Dayan moved to London in 1998 to help co-found the Gatsby unit. He led the unit from 2002 to 2017 and researched the theoretical basis of learning and choice. Dayan became a director at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in 2018. His research studies brain decision-making, neuromodulators and psychiatric disorders at the interface of natural and engineered learning systems.
- Works
- 992
- Citations
- 86,459
- h-index
- 116
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Timeline
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1995
Early academic career
Dayan joined MIT as an assistant professor in 1995 after studying mathematics at Cambridge, earning an Edinburgh doctorate and conducting postdoctoral research at Salk and Toronto.
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1998–2017
Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit
Dayan moved to London in 1998 to help co-found the Gatsby unit. He led the unit from 2002 to 2017 and researched the theoretical basis of learning and choice.
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2018
Max Planck research
Dayan became a director at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in 2018. His research studies brain decision-making, neuromodulators and psychiatric disorders at the interface of natural and engineered learning systems.
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