Sam Gershman

Professor

Year

2024
Program

Schmidt Science Polymaths
Institution

Harvard University
Field of Study

Computational Neuroscience
Location

Boston, USA

Dr. Sam Gershman is a Professor in the Department of Psychology and Center for Brain Science at Harvard University. He is also affiliated with the Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard and the Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines at MIT. As an undergraduate at Columbia University, he studied Neuroscience and Behavior, and subsequently completed a PhD in Psychology and Neuroscience at Princeton University. After a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, he started his lab at Harvard in 2015. His research interests range from AI algorithms and human cognition to computational neuroscience and experimental biology. The questions studied by his lab revolve around the fundamental puzzles of intelligence: what makes us smart, how is intelligence realized in biological systems, and how can we endow machines with similar capabilities?