Nima Dehghani.

Nima Dehghani

Research scientist
McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Nima Dehghani is a research scientist at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research focuses on data-driven dynamical modeling, foundations of physical computing and bio-inspired intelligence.

He was initially trained as a physician and later as a physicist, obtaining his Ph.D. in complex systems physics and computational neuroscience from Sorbonne Université  (Campus Pierre et Marie Curie) while conducting research at the Laboratory of Computational Neuroscience at the Unité de Neuroscience, Information et Complexité, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (UNIC-CNRS). For more information, see: https://compneuro.mit.edu/about

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