James DiCarlo

James J. DiCarlo
Born	c. 1968 (age 55–56)
Alma mater	Northwestern University Johns Hopkins University
Awards	Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship McKnight Scholar Award in Neuroscience
Scientific career
Fields	Neuroscience
Institutions	Johns Hopkins University Baylor College of Medicine MIT
Thesis	The spatial and temporal structure of neural receptive fields in area 3b of primary somatosensory cortex in the alert monkey (1998)
Doctoral advisors	Kenneth O. Johnson Steven S. Hsiao

James Joseph DiCarlo (born c. 1968) is an American neuroscientist currently the Peter de Florez Professor of Neuroscience at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Biography

DiCarlo received his BS in biomedical engineering at Northwestern University in 1990. He then attended the MD PhD program at Johns Hopkins University and graduated in 1998. After spending two years as a postdoctoral researcher in primate visual neurophysiology at Baylor College of Medicine, he joined the faculty at MIT in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department.