Timothy J. Gardner
| Timothy J. Gardner | |
|---|---|
| Born | |
| 🎓 Alma mater | Princeton University (B.S.); Rockefeller University (Ph.D.) |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Known for | Co-founder of Neuralink; songbird vocal learning; TweetyNet; TweetyBERT |
Timothy J. Gardner is an American neuroscientist and neuroengineer at the Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact at the University of Oregon, and a co-founding member of Neuralink, a brain-computer interface company founded in 2016 by Elon Musk alongside a team of eight scientists and engineers, including Max Hodak, Benjamin Rapoport, Dongjin Seo, Paul Merolla, Philip Sabes, Tim Hanson, and Vanessa Tolosa, with the goal of developing a fully implanted bidirectional interface to the human brain.[1][2] He is known for pioneering the use of songbirds as a model system for studying how the brain learns, produces, and organizes complex vocal behaviors.[3] His research has shown that songbirds maintain a hidden short-term memory of their own vocalizations across timescales of seconds, using this history to guide the production of future song, a mechanism with deep parallels to how humans organize speech.[4] He and his team developed TweetyNet and TweetyBERT, self-supervised neural network models enabling automated, high-throughput annotation of birdsong without human-labeled training data, opening new frontiers in the study of animal communication.[5][6]
Education and career
Gardner obtained his B.S. in physics from Princeton University and his Ph.D. in biology and physics from Rockefeller University.[7] He completed postdoctoral fellowships at Rockefeller University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[8] He joined the faculty of Boston University, where he directed the Laboratory of Neural Circuit Formation and led research on vocal learning in songbirds.[9] He joined the University of Oregon in 2019 as the Robert and Leona DeArmond Chair in Neuroengineering at the Knight Campus, where he is also affiliated with the Department of Physics and the Institute of Neuroscience.[10] He directs the Gardner Laboratory.
References
- ↑ Urban, Tim (April 20, 2017). "Neuralink and the Brain's Magical Future". Wait But Why.
- ↑ "A BU Researcher Will Help Elon Musk Attempt to Connect Human Brains with Computers". Boston.com. March 29, 2017.
- ↑ "Neuro-engineer headlines faculty hires at Knight Campus". University of Oregon. May 6, 2019.
- ↑ "Birdsong offers clues to the workings of short-term memory". University of Oregon.
- ↑ Cohen, Y; Nicholson, DA; Gardner, TJ (2022). "Automated annotation of birdsong with a neural network that segments spectrograms". eLife. 11. doi:10.7554/eLife.63853.
- ↑ Vengrovski, G; Hulsey-Vincent, MR; Bemrose, MA; Gardner, TJ (2025). "TweetyBERT: Automated parsing of birdsong through self-supervised machine learning". bioRxiv. doi:10.1101/2025.04.09.648029.
- ↑ "Tim Gardner". Knight Campus, University of Oregon.
- ↑ "Tim Gardner - Institute of Neuroscience". University of Oregon.
- ↑ "A BU Researcher Will Help Elon Musk Attempt to Connect Human Brains with Computers". Boston.com. March 29, 2017.
- ↑ "Neuroengineer Tim Gardner receives foundation award to advance brain injury research". Knight Campus, University of Oregon.
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