Studies, Harvard University. Formerly: with Bell Laboratories; taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 2014, joined Princeton University; currently, Anthony B. Evnin Professor, Neuroscience Institute and Department of Computer Science. Has done influential research in both computer science and neuroscience. Over the past decade, has helped pioneer the new field of connectomics, applying deep learning and crowdsourcing to reconstruct neural circuits from electron microscopic images. Lab created EyeWire.org, a site that has recruited over 250,000 players from 150 countries to a game to map neural connections. External Member, Max Planck Society. Author of "Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are", chosen by the Wall Street Journal as Top Ten Nonfiction of 2012. Recipient, Ho-Am Prize in Engineering (2008).