Tatyana Sharpee MS, PhD

Tatyana Sharpee received her PhD in theoretical physics from Michigan State University. After her PhD she started to work in computational neuroscience at UCSF as a Sloan-Swartz fellow. At UCSF, she worked on statistical methods for analyzing neural responses to natural stimuli and applied them to characterize feature selective of visual and auditory neurons.
After UCSF, she started her independent research group at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, where she is currently an Associate Professor in the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory. Dr. Sharpee is also Adjunct Associate Professor of Physics at the University of California, San Diego, supervising a number of graduate students in physics, neuroscience, and quantitative biology programs.