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Rajesh P. N. Rao

Rajesh P. N. Rao is the CJ and Elizabeth Hwang Professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Washington (UW), Seattle. He is also the co-Director of the Center for Neurotechnology (CNT), Adjunct Professor in the Bioengineering department, and faculty member in the Neuroscience Graduate Program at UW. He directs the Neural Systems Laboratory located in the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science and Engineering. His awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, an IEEE Fellow award, a Fulbright Scholar award, an NSF CAREER award, an ONR Young Investigator Award, a Sloan Faculty Fellowship, and a David and Lucile Packard Fellowship.

His research interests span computational neuroscience, brain-computer interfaces, and artificial intelligence as well as the Indus script and classical Indian paintings. 

Sensory-Motor Theory
of the Neocortex
(Nature Neurosci., 2024)
Recursive
Neural Progams

(PNAS Nexus, 2023)

RECENT ARTICLES

Dynamic
Predictive Coding
(PLoS Comp Bio, 2024)
Active
Predictive Coding
(Neural Comp., 2024)

IN THE MEDIA

Scientific American
National Public Radio
UW Press Release
Newsweek
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