Biography
Andreas Tolias is professor of ophthalmology at Stanford University, with affiliations across the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute and Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, and is co-founding director of the Enigma Project. His group combines large-scale neural recordings with machine learning to decode the brain's algorithms for perception and cognition and to design neuro-informed AI that is more efficient and interpretable. Earlier, Tolias founded the Center for Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence at Baylor College of Medicine, where he led DARPA- and IARPA-funded consortia that produced the largest paired functional-connectomics dataset and pioneered brain digital-twin models. His honours include the NIH Director's Pioneer Award and the McKnight Scholar Award.
Research Interests
- cortical circuits
- AI-neuroscience interface
- population coding
- visual cortex
- large-scale recordings
SCENE Teams
Featured Publications
The Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience: Studying how the brain interacts with the world
Angelaki DE, Batista A, Fitzgerald T, Kominsky JF, Lengyel M, Mathis A, Mathis MW, Moss CF, Niell CM, Noel JP, Pitkow X, Rothkopf CA, Savin C, Stachenfeld K, Suthana N, Tolias A, Ulanovsky N, Wolpert DM, Wong A, Zimmermann J
Neuron, 2026 · DOI (opens in new tab) · Preprint (PDF) (opens in new tab)