Santa Fe Institute Collaboration Platform

Thermodynamics of Computation

Naftali Tishby

From Thermodynamics of Computation

Biography: I work at the interfaces between computer science, physics, and biology which provide some of the most challenging problems in today’s science and technology. We focus on organizing computational principles that govern information processing in biology, at all levels. To this end, we employ and develop methods that stem from statistical physics, information theory and computational learning theory, to analyze biological data and develop biologically inspired algorithms that can account for the observed performance of biological systems. We hope to find simple yet powerful computational mechanisms that may characterize evolved and adaptive systems, from the molecular level to the whole computational brain and interacting populations.

Field(s) of Research: Stochastic Thermodynamics, Thermodynamics of Neurobiology, Naturally Occurring Biological Computation

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