Rate My Professor Thomas Serre

Thomas Serre is the Thomas J. Watson, Sr. Professor of Science and Professor of Cognitive & Psychological Sciences and Computer Science at Brown University. He received his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from MIT in 2006 and his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Télécom Bretagne in France in 2000. His research focuses on the neural computations supporting visual perception and operates at the intersection of biological and artificial vision, including computational neuroscience and computer vision. Serre serves as Faculty Director of the Center for Computation & Visualization and Associate Director of the Center for Computational Brain Science. He is an affiliate of the Carney Institute for Brain Science and the Data Science Institute at Brown University. He also holds an International Chair in Artificial Intelligence at the Artificial and Natural Intelligence Toulouse Institute in France and is a Fellow of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems.

Serre has received the NSF Early Career Award, DARPA’s Young Faculty Award, and DARPA Director’s Award. His team’s work on human action recognition earned the 2021 PAMI Helmholtz Prize and the 2022 PAMI Mark Everingham Prize. He serves as an area chair or senior program committee member for conferences including AAAI, CVPR, ICML, ICLR, and NeurIPS, and as Neuroscience section editor for PLOS Computational Biology. His work has been featured in outlets such as the BBC, The Economist, New Scientist, and Scientific American.