Salk Scientist Tatyana Sharpee receives CAREER award from NSF

September 11, 2013

Salk Scientist Tatyana Sharpee receives CAREER award from NSF

$453,000 in funds to support an advanced study of the neural architectures that enable object recognition

September 11, 2013

LA JOLLA, CA—Salk scientist 塔季扬娜·沙尔佩 has received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to fund upcoming research in her lab. The CAREER award supports faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations.

An associate professor in the 计算神经生物学实验室, Sharpee will receive $453,000 over the next five years to fund her proposed study: “Characterizing feature selectivity and invariance in deep neural architectures.” In an effort to help elucidate the principles that make robust object recognition possible, she will explore how an organism’s neurons are able to demonstrate both “invariance,” which produces a similar response to the same object even when observed from different viewpoints, and “selectivity,” which requires different responses to potentially quite similar objects. The results of her study will help reveal the common principles of sensory processing in the brain and may ultimately lead to improved designs of artificial recognition systems, including sensory prostheses.

Sharpee received her Ph.D. in Physics at Michigan State University and was a Sloan-Swartz Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, San Francisco. In the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory at the Salk Institute, Sharpee and her team work on theoretical principles of how the brain processes information.

关于索尔克生物研究所：

索尔克生物研究所是世界顶尖的基础研究机构之一，其国际知名的教职人员在一个独特、协作和富有创造性的环境中，深入探究生命科学的基本问题。索尔克科学家们致力于发现和指导未来几代研究人员，通过研究神经科学、遗传学、细胞和植物生物学以及相关学科，在癌症、衰老、阿尔茨海默氏症、糖尿病和传染病的认识方面做出了开创性的贡献。.

学院取得了许多成就，获得了包括诺贝尔奖和美国国家科学院院士在内的无数荣誉。该研究所由脊髓灰质炎疫苗先驱 Jonas Salk 博士于 1960 年创立，是一家独立的非营利组织和建筑地标。.

About the NSF:

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency that supports fundamental research and education across all fields of science and engineering. In fiscal year 2012, its budget was $7 billion. NSF funds reach all fifty states through grants to nearly 2,000 colleges, universities and other institutions.