E.J. Chichilnisky

Eduardo Jose Chichilnisky (shortened to E.J.; born 1965)[a] is an Argentine-born neurobiologist and academic. He has worked at Stanford University since 2013, and serves as John R. Adler Professor of Neurosurgery.

Personal life and education

E.J. Chichilnisky was born 1965[1] in Buenos Aires, Argentina to then-unmarried Graciela Chichilnisky.[2] Graciela moved to the United States for graduate education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology within the first few years of E.J.'s lifetime, and raised him as a single mother.[3][4] E.J. received a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics from Princeton University and subsequently earned a Master of Science degree in mathematics and a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree in neuroscience from Stanford University.[5] His Stanford Ph.D. dissertation was entitled Perceptual Measurements of Neural Computations in Color Appearance.[6]

Speaking on Andrew Huberman's podcast in 2024, Chichilnisky described his path through education—the Ph.D. program in neuroscience was the third doctoral program at Stanford that he had pursued; he had earlier started and dropped programs in math and in economics.[7]

Career and research

Chichilnisky's research focuses on understanding the spatiotemporal electrical activity patterns in the retina, which are essential for transmitting visual information to the brain. Chichilnisky's work involves studying these patterns and their relationship to retinal circuitry through the use of extensive multi-electrode recordings.[8] He has also worked in characterizing retinal cells' neural signaling.[9]

Before joining Stanford, Chichilnisky worked at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.[10] He worked for Salk from 1998 to 2013, the year he joined Stanford University.[11] At Stanford, he is a professor of neurosurgery and of ophthalmology, and, by courtesy, of electrical engineering.[12]

Notes

1. Sources attest various spelling and typographical differences of his name.
   As Eduardo Jose:
   • "Chichilnisky, Graciela". Who's Who in American Education 2006–2007 (7th ed.). Marquis Who's Who. 2005. p. 299. ISBN 0-8379-2708-0.
   • "Collaborators". Neural Interfaces Lab. The University of Texas at Dallas. Retrieved 2024-04-21. Chichilnisky Lab – Dr. Eduardo Jose (E.J.) Chichilnisky
   As Eduardo-Jose:
   • Chichilnisky, Graciela (June–August 1984). "Terms of trade, domestic distribution and export-led growth". Journal of Development Economics. 15 (1–3): 177–184. doi:10.1016/0304-3878(84)90015-4. ... by the computer simulation of Eduardo-Jose Chichilnisky (1984) which reproduces numerically my Proposition 3 ...
   As Eduardo José:
   • "Professor Dr. Eduardo José Chichilnisky". GEPRIS. DFG. Retrieved 2024-04-21.
   As Eduardo-José:
   • Chichilnisky, Graciela (1976). Manifolds of Preferences and Equilibria (Dissertation). University of California, Berkeley. I am also grateful to my son Eduardo-José Chichilnisky for providing support and sympathy when it was needed.

References

1. Chichilnisky, Eduardo-José (1994). Perceptual measurements of neural computations in color appearance (Thesis manuscript) – via Stanford Libraries. Chichilnisky, E. J. (Eduardo-José), 1965-
2. "Graciela-Chichilinsky-Interview-for-Oxford-Journal-of-Research-7.2015.pdf" (PDF). Graciela Chichilnisky – via chichilnisky.com. My son Eduardo Jose Chichilnisky, who is now a Professor of Neurosurgery and Experimental Physics at Stanford University, was born when I was a teenager. At the time I had no husband.
3. Kaufman, Leslie; Rathi, Akshat (April 8, 2021). "A Carbon-Sucking Startup Has Been Paralyzed by Its CEO". Bloomberg.com.
4. "Is Outdated Economics Threatening Western Civilization?". International Affairs Forum. Retrieved April 17, 2024.
5. Jang, Moonhyung; et al. (April 2024). "A 1024-Channel 268-nW/Pixel 36×36 μm 2 /Channel Data-Compressive Neural Recording IC for High-Bandwidth Brain–Computer Interfaces". IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. 59 (4): 1123–1136. doi:10.1109/JSSC.2023.3344798. E. J. Chichilnisky received the B.A. degree in mathematics from Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA, and the M.S. degree in mathematics and the Ph.D. degree in neuroscience from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
6. Chichilnisky, Eduardo-José (1994). Perceptual Measurements of Neural Computations in Color Appearance. Stanford University. ProQuest 304234709.
7. Huberman, Andrew (March 18, 2024). "Dr. E.J. Chichilnisky: How the Brain Works, Curing Blindness & How to Navigate a Career Path". Huberman Lab.
8. "E.J. Chichilnisky". Stanford Profiles. Stanford University. Retrieved 2024-04-21.
9. Lamb, Trevor D.; Yau, King-Wai (2024-04-17). "Denis Aristide Baylor. 30 January 1940 — 16 March 2022". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2023.0033. Subsequently, Denis employed the multielectrode approach in a number of collaborations, variously with Meister, Leon Lagnado, Steven DeVries and E. J. Chichilnisky, to characterize neural signalling by populations of cells in the retina.
10. Parry, Wynne (2010-10-06). "Neural Diagrams Help Explain Color Vision". NBC News. Archived from the original on March 27, 2024. Retrieved 2024-04-21.
11. "E. J. Chichilnisky". Neurotree. Retrieved 2024-04-21.
12. "E.J. Jose Chichilnisky". Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute. Stanford University. Retrieved 2024-04-21.

External links

• Stanford Medicine profile