Neurobiology’s Terrence Sejnowski Elected to Royal Society and American Philosophical Society
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Terrence Sejnowski, a distinguished professor in UC San Diego’s School of Biological Sciences, has been selected to join two of the most prominent societies in the world: the Royal Society and the American Philosophical Society.
Sejnowski, a faculty member in the Department of Neurobiology and a professor at the Salk Institute, is a pioneer in computational neuroscience who leads groundbreaking research on artificial intelligence, neural networks and principles that link brain to behavior.
Professor Terrence Sejnowski, Department of Neurobiology, School of Biological Sciences, and Salk Institute.
Sejnowski was selected for foreign membership in the British-based Royal Society, one of the world’s most prestigious scientific societies and the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence. He was one of 90 researchers from around the world elected to fellowship in the Royal Society in areas ranging from genetics to meteorology to precision medicine.
Separately, Sejnowski was one of 38 newly elected members to the American Philosophical Society (APS), the oldest learned society in North America. Founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1743, the APS brings together leaders in science and other fields as a forum for the free exchange of ideas and “promoting useful knowledge.”
Over his distinguished career, Sejnowski has been recognized for foundational contributions to the exploding field of artificial intelligence (Sejnowski discusses the history of AI, his role in the convergence of neuroscience and AI and other topics in this UC San Diego Today Q&A). Last year he published “ChatGPT and the Future of AI,” a book that explores large language models like ChatGPT, their past history and future outlook. He authors a free Substack forum on Brains and AI, which he describes as “everything you always wanted to know about ChatGPT, the future of AI and the computational brain.”
Sejnowski was recently recognized for his contributions to AI development with 2024 Nobel Prize-winner Geoffrey Hinton. Sejnowski also was honored with the 2024 Brain Prize, an honorary doctorate in science from Princeton University and named ARCS Foundation of San Diego Scientist of the Year.
In addition to his faculty position in the Department of Neurobiology, Sejnowski is a director of the Institute for Neural Computation, an organized research unit at UC San Diego, holds adjunct appointments in the UC San Diego Departments of Neurosciences, Cognitive Science and Computer Science and Engineering,
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