About me
 | Ueli Rutishauser, PhD Professor and Board of Governors Chair in Neurosciences Neurosurgery, Neurology, Biomedical Sciences, & Center for Neural Science and Medicine Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Faculty Associate in Biology and Biological Engineering Computation & Neural Systems, Division of Biology and Biological Engineering California Institute of Technology |
Ueli Rutishauser, PhD, is Professor and Board of Governors Chair in Neurosciences in the Department of Neurosurgery, with joint appointments in the Departments of Neurology and Biomedical Sciences. He directs the Center for Neural Science and Medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and holds a joint appointment as a Faculty Associate in the Division of Biology and Biological Engineering at the California Institute of Technology.
Dr. Rutishauser studied computer science for his BS and received his PhD in Computation & Neural Systems from Caltech. After postdoctoral studies at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt, Germany, he started his lab in 2012. Awards include the American Epilepsy Society Young Investigator Award (2007), the Ferguson Award from Caltech (2008), the Troland Award by the National Academy of Sciences (2014), the Next Generation Leader Award by the Allen Institute for Brain Science (2014), the NSF CAREER award (2016), the NIMH BRAINS award (2017), and the Prize for Research in Scientific Medicine (2017). He is an elected member of the Memory Disorders Research Society (2018), co-edited the textbook "Single neuron studies of the human brain" (MIT press) and is one of the organizers of the Human Single Neuron meeting. His work has been published in journals that include Nature, Science, Neuron, Nature Neuroscience, PNAS, Current Biology, PLOS Computational Biology, and Neural Computation.
Laboratory overview
We investigate the mechanisms of learning, memory and decision-making, with a particular interest in the human brain at the single-neuron level. We use a combination of in vivo single-unit electrophysiology, intracranial electrocorticography, eye tracking, behavior, and computational and theoretical approaches. We have helped pioneer the technique of human single-neuron recordings and continue to advance the tools, methods and surgical techniques that allow such experiments. Recent work has focused on single-trial learning, error monitoring, memory retrieval, cognitive flexibility, neural geometries, and abstraction.
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