Prof.
Yoram
Burak
- Racah Institute of Physics, and Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
English, Hebrew
- STEM Life Sciences, Physics
- Fields: Life Sciences, Physics
- Life Sciences Sub-Fields: Computational Neuroscience
- Physics Sub-Fields: Biophysics, Statistical Physics
Research Interests
Yoram Burak’s lab investigates how neural circuits in the brain perform biologically relevant computations, such as: maintenance of short term memory, sensory inference, spatial computation, and generation of sequential neural activity.
Lab members apply diverse theoretical and computational tools borrowed from statistical physics, the theory of nonlinear dynamics, information theory, and machine learning — to approach, in a principled way, questions on design principles and mechanisms that underlie computation in the brain.
Selected Awards
2021- 10M Euro ERC Synergy Grant (KiloNeurons: Yoram Burak, Hebrew University, Israel and Edvard Moser, NTNU, Norway
2020– Incumbent of the William N. Skirball Chair in Neurophysics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2007-10 Swartz Fellow in Theoretical Neuroscience, Harvard University
2005 Ph.D. awarded with distinction
B.Sc. in physics (major) and computer science (minor) – summa cum laude
2020– Incumbent of the William N. Skirball Chair in Neurophysics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2007-10 Swartz Fellow in Theoretical Neuroscience, Harvard University
2005 Ph.D. awarded with distinction
B.Sc. in physics (major) and computer science (minor) – summa cum laude
