Ido Kanter
Professor Ido Kanter | |
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| Born | November 21, 1959 |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Citizenship | Israel |
| Alma mater | Bar-Ilan University |
| Awards | Weizmann Postdoctoral Fellowship (1988-1989)
Humboldt Senior Research Prize (2001) |
| Scientific career | |
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| Institutions | Postdoc: Princeton University, with P. W. Anderson |
| Doctoral advisor | Haim Sompolinsky |
Ido Kanter (born: 21 Nov. 1959) is an Israeli professor of physics and the head of the Lab for Reverberating Modes in Neural Networks at the Gonda Brain Research Center at Bar-Ilan University. He specializes in models of disorder magnetic systems, physical random number generators, theory of neural networks, deep learning and synchronization among neurons and lasers, documented in more than 200 publications.
His research on the behavior of artificial networks led him to conduct biological experiments. He made the very unusual transition from theoretical physics to experimental neuroscience as a full professor in 2012, following the teaching of Professor Phil Anderson, a Nobel laureate, his supervisor during his postdoc at Princeton University: Follow your dreams.
Education
Ido Kanter was born and raised in Rehovot, Israel and served in the Israeli Defense Force from 1978 to 1981. Kanter graduated summa cum laude from Bar-Ilan University with a bachelor's degree in physics and computer science in 1983. In 1987, he received his direct Ph.D. from Bar-Ilan University with his thesis, “Theory of Spin Glasses and its Applications to Complex Problems in Mathematics and Biology,” under the supervision of Professor Haim Sompolinsky.
Academic Career
After completing his Ph.D., Kanter joined Professor Phil W. Anderson’s group at Princeton University as a visiting research fellow (1988-1989). He was also a visiting research fellow at AT&T Bell Labs, collaborating with Yann LeCun (1989). In 1989, Kanter became a senior lecturer at Bar-Ilan University. He became an associate professor in 1991 at age 31 and a full professor in 1996.
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