Travis Meyer, PhD, is the Lead Senior Scientist for the Visual Memory Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently leading researcher groups that reverse engineer memory circuits in the brain related to learning and memory and translate those findings into machine learning (AI) algorithms for unsupervised learning, and the automation of spike sorting.
He recently developed novel experimental solutions to studying neural circuits (Learn More) and has won numerous awards such as the National Research Service Award and the Norman M. Sulkin Neurobiology Award.
He received a Bachelors of Science in Psychobiology from Florida Atlantic University in 2002, and a PhD in Neuroscience from Wake Forest Medical Center in 2008. He studied unconscious systems as a Senior Scientist at Carnegie Mellon University until joining the University of Pennsylvania in 2015.
Travis lives with his wife and 3 sons in the suburbs of Philadelphia.