Christof Koch
| Christof Koch | |
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Christof Koch, 2008
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| Born |
November 13, 1956 Kansas City, Missouri |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Biophysics |
| Alma mater |
University of Tübingen Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics |
| Doctoral advisor |
Valentin Braitenberg Tomaso Poggio |
| Doctoral students | Laurent Itti, Virgil Griffith |
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Website http://christofkoch.com |
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Christof Koch (/kɑːx/; born November 13, 1956) is an American neuroscientist best known for his work on the neural bases of consciousness. He is the President and Chief Scientific Officer of the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle. From 1986 until 2013, he was a professor at the California Institute of Technology.
Koch is the son of German parents; his father was a diplomat, as is his older brother . He was raised as a Roman Catholic and attended a Jesuit high school in Morocco. He received a PhD in nonlinear information processing from the Max Planck Institute in Tübingen, Germany in 1982. He worked for four years at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT before joining, in 1986, the newly started Computation and Neural Systems PhD program at the California Institute of Technology.
In 1986, Koch and Shimon Ullman proposed the idea of a visual saliency map in the primate visual system. Subsequently, his then PhD-student, Laurent Itti, and Koch developed a popular suite of visual saliency algorithms.
For over two decades, Koch and his students have carried out detailed biophysical simulations of the electrical properties of neuronal tissue, from simulating the details of the action potential propagation along axons and dendrites to the synthesis of the local field potential and the EEG from the electrical activity of large populations of excitable neurons.
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