Talmo Pereira
Hi, I’m Talmo. I’m an Assistant Professor and Director of the Center for AI and Research Computing at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, where my lab uses computer vision and deep learning to study animal behavior, neuroscience, and plants! I started the lab as a Salk Fellow in 2021.
I received my BS in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. I received my PhD in Neuroscience at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, co-advised by Mala Murthy and Joshua Shaevitz.
Bio
Dr. Talmo Pereira is an Assistant Professor and Director of the Center for AI and Research Computing at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego, CA, where he leads a research lab focused on the development and application of computational tools for neuroscience and biology more broadly. He started his lab as a Salk Fellow in November 2021, a faculty-level appointment that gives advanced PhD students the opportunity to achieve early independence and bypass the traditional postdoctoral training stage. His lab (talmolab.org) focuses on the development of deep learning-based computational methods for recognition and modeling of complex biological systems, with applications ranging from neuroscience to cancer and plant biology. His recent work has demonstrated how advances in deep learning and computer vision can enable quantitative phenotyping of complex behaviors through the development and application of approaches for markerless motion capture (sleap.ai). This work has been published in Nature Methods and featured in The Scientist, Nature Lab Animal, Nature Toolbox, Quanta Magazine and others. Prior to joining Salk, Talmo worked as a research intern in Perception at Google AI working on pose-based action recognition, and received his PhD in Neuroscience from Princeton University where he was also a recipient of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and the Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship – Princeton University’s top graduate student honor.