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Doris Tsao

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Doris Tsao

@doristsao

cortical geometer

Berkeley, CA

Joined October 2016

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Doris Tsao
@doristsao
Dec 10, 2025
I am deeply excited to share that I will be joining @AsteraInstitute to start a new effort to understand how the brain generates consciousness and intelligence.
Astera Institute
@AsteraInstitute
Dec 10, 2025
We’re launching Astera Neuro, a new neuroscience research effort led by @doristsao as Chief Scientist. Our aim is to unravel a profound scientific mystery: how the brain transforms sensory inputs into conscious experience. Advancing this work could illuminate the computational
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Doris Tsao
@doristsao
Mar 28, 2019
It breaks my heart to see a postdoc’s NRSA grant rejection summary statement citing mixed undergraduate grades from a decade ago as a weakness. Reviewers: you have a lot of power to empower or discourage young people, use it wisely.
Doris Tsao
@doristsao
May 24, 2019
In college my life was transformed by a scholarship from @Caltech to do summer research in Germany. In the spirit of paying it forward, w/ help from @macfound, I’d like offer a 6K summer travel stipend to an undergraduate woman interested in neuroscience. Inspired by @DulacLab
Doris Tsao
@doristsao
Feb 9, 2025
I, and every scientist I've talked to, believe the end result of this devastating cut will be that Universities will simply pass on the buck to investigators. Many of us fervently agree that university administrations & bureaucracy should be downsized and reformed. This maneuver
NIH
@NIH
Feb 7, 2025
Last year, $9B of the $35B that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) granted for research was used for administrative overhead, what is known as “indirect costs.” Today, NIH lowered the maximum indirect cost rate research institutions can charge the government to 15%, above
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Doris Tsao
@doristsao
Jun 12, 2024
It's hard to express how grateful and unworthy I feel to receive this honor. It feels embarrassing to be distinguished for discoveries that depend on the contributions of so many. I thank my mentors Marge Livingstone and David Hubel for their love and faith. I thank the
The Kavli Prize
@KavliPrize
Jun 12, 2024
Just Announced! The #KavliPrize2024 Laureates in #Neuroscience!
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Doris Tsao
@doristsao
Nov 2, 2025
Unbelievable: the famed Berkeley Math Circle is being forced to shut down due to a bureaucratic requirement where a guest lecturer giving an hour long lesson needs to be officially fingerprinted. How is fingerprinting even still a thing in the 21st century? Chancellor Lyons
Genius-producing math program lost to UC Berkeley fingerprinting requirements
From dailycal.org
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Doris Tsao
@doristsao
Jul 6, 2021
How does perception of objects arise? Objects undergo huge changes in appearance due to deformation, perspective change, & dynamic occlusion. We prove from first principles that it’s possible, without learning, to perceive invariant objects despite this. arxiv.org/abs/2107.02036
Doris Tsao
@doristsao
Oct 19, 2020
I am excited to announce that my lab will be moving to @UCBerkeley in fall 2021. Grateful to join the incredible neuroscience community @UCBerkeleyNeuro @berkeleyMCB and become part of an institution that is truly disruptive, scientifically and culturally.
UC Berkeley MCB
@berkeleyMCB
Oct 19, 2020
👋 Please join us in warmly welcoming Doris Tsao to @UCBerkeley, MCB & @UCBerkeleyNeuro! She'll join the MCB Neurobiology division & HWNI in July 2021. Learn more 👉 bit.ly/3o54R34 || @doristsao
Doris Tsao
@doristsao
Jul 24, 2020
Sad to learn about the passing of Mark Konishi. A humble son of two silk weavers from Kyoto, he came to this country to study how birds learn to sing, and gained some of the first glimpses into the beauty and precision of the neural circuits that give rise to behavior.
Doris Tsao
@doristsao
Oct 6, 2020
So happy to hear that the hero of my youth, Roger Penrose, has been awarded the Nobel Prize. His honesty in stating that existing physical laws can't explain consciousness influenced me hugely. I used to daydream about being his grad student.
Doris Tsao
@doristsao
Dec 7, 2023
I am beyond excited to share a new paper “Rapid, concerted switching of the neural code in inferotemporal cortex,” led by @Yuelin_Shi and Dasheng Bi. We describe a new form of neural computation in which single neurons rapidly change their tuning to temporally multiplex different
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Doris Tsao
@doristsao
Oct 24, 2020
The figure below by Roger Penrose is perhaps my favorite figure of all time. It so powerfully and inspiringly rejects the notion of 'primacy' and embraces the notion of a single mystery to be solved.
Doris Tsao
@doristsao
Jun 4, 2020
If you're an African American college student with dreams about understanding the brain, email me an essay about those dreams--I'd be so grateful to hear your story. I will give a 6K scholarship to one person as a tiny token of encouragement #BlackLivesMatter #HBCU #TinySteps
Doris Tsao
@doristsao
Apr 28, 2020
Thank you so much for this incredible honor! The well wishes from my scientific heroes have been overwhelming. Most of all, I thank my mentors-Marge, DH, and my dad-and my amazing collaborators and lab members past and present. This moment is for you
National Academy of Sciences
@theNASciences
Apr 28, 2020
Today we are recognizing Dr. Doris Y. Tsao of @Caltechwith election to the National Academy of Sciences in honor of outstanding contributions to neuroscience. #NAS157 Read more at: ow.ly/yn9y50zqaMI