high tech companies including Arris Pharmaceutical, nFX, Imagen, Digital Persona and DeepMind. Among his PhD students and post-docs are some of the today's leaders in the Science and in the Engineering of Intelligence, from Christof Koch (President and Chief Scientific Officer, Allen Institute) to Amnon Shashua (CTO and founder, Mobileye) and Demis Hassabis (CEO and founder, Deep Mind). Honors and awards Poggio is an honorary member of the Neuroscience Research Program, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a founding fellow of AAAI and a founding member of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research. He received the Laurea Honoris Causa in Computer Engineering from the University of Pavia for the Volta Bicentennial in 2000, the 2003 Gabor Award, the 2009 Okawa Prize , and named in 2009 a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for “distinguished contributions to computational neuroscience, in particular, computational vision learning and regularization theory, biophysics of computation and models of recognition in the visual cortex”, the 2014 Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience, in 2020 won the first edition of the international scientific award "Ratio et spes", the ICCV 2021 Helmholtz Prize, and the Kampe’ de F’eriet Award and Plenary Lecture, IMPU 2022, Milan, Italy. Notable students Christof Koch, President and Chief Scientific Officer, Allen Institute for Brain Science Amnon Shashua, CTO and founder, Mobileye Demis Hassabis, CEO and founder of Google DeepMind See also Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines Center for Biological and Computational Learning at MIT. References External links The Center for Biological and Computational Learning (CBCL) at MIT McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science faculty Artificial intelligence researchers Italian cognitive neuroscientists Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Living people 1947 births University of Genoa alumni Italian computer scientists American computer scientists Computer vision researchers