He received his A.B. in Physics from Princeton University in 1997, and Ph.D. in Biophysics from Harvard University in 2006. Dr. Pitkow held a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at Columbia University from 2007-2010, followed by a postdoctoral research scientist position in the Department of Brain of Cognitive Sciences at the University of Rochester. Dr. Pitkow's primary focus is on developing theories of the computational functions of neural networks, especially how they compute properties of the world using ambiguous sensory evidence. Dr. Pitkow also plays some piano, tabla, saxophone, trumpet, and a smattering of world instruments, and has particular interest in the physics and neuroscience of music perception.