Timothy Horiuchi received both his Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering (1989) and his Ph.D. in Computation and Neural Systems (1997) from the California Institute of Technology. Following postdoctoral research at the Johns Hopkins University (Mind-Brain Instititute), he joined the University of Maryland College Park in 1999 as a part of the Microelectronics group in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and now has the rank of Associate Professor. He is a co-director of the Computational Sensorimotor Systems Laboratory and is a member of the Neurosciences and Cognitive Sciences Program at the University of Maryland and an Affiliate member of the Institute for Systems Research.
Degrees
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BSElectrical Engineering, Caltech
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PhDComputation and Neural Systems, Caltech
Dr. Horiuchi's general research interests are in computational neuroscience and the implementation of neural circuit architectures in neuromorphic VLSI-based processors. The applications of interest center around the coordination of sensorimotor systems and the interplay between the body and neural processing (e.g., eye movements, bat echolocation, and olfactory sniffing). He has been involved in the development of analog VLSI chips that perform auditory and visual localization, implement non-volatile, on-chip analog memories, and control small mobile ground and aerial robots. He is also involved in collaborative efforts to grow neurons in culture and demonstrate computation and learning in these systems.
