Biography
Dr. Hecht-Nielsen directs the Confabulation Neuroscience Laboratory
at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information
Technology (Calit2). He has been adjunct professor in Electrical and
Computer Engineering at UCSD since 1986. He teaches the popular ECE 270
three-quarter graduate course Neurocomputing, which focuses on the
basic constructs of his theory of thalamocortex and their applications.
He is a member of the UCSD Institute for Neural Computation and is a
founder of the UCSD Graduate Program in Computational Neurobiology. He
has also been a vice president of research and development at Fair
Isaac Corporation since 2002, when Fair Isaac acquired HNC Software.
The latter company, where he was a co-founder and chief scientist, made
and marketed intelligent software for various commercial business
applications, including detecting credit/debit card fraud, automating
lending decisions, and extracting information from customer databases.
He is one of the pioneers in the development of neural networks and,
in 1989, authored one of the first textbooks on the subject, called Neurocomputing. In 2003, he co-edited a collection of essays Computational Models for Neuroscience.
An IEEE Fellow, he has received the IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award and the ECE Graduate Teaching Award at UCSD.
Dr. Hecht-Nielsen received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Arizona State University in 1974.
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