Carina Curto (born 15 April 1978) is an American mathematician, a professor at Pennsylvania State University, and a Sloan Research Fellow.
[4] She is an associate editor at SIAGA, a SIAM journal on applied algebra and geometry[5] and on the editorial board at Physical Review Research.
During her school years, she attended courses at the University of Iowa, including advanced mathematics classes, physics, computer science, French literature, and more.
[5][11] Her research focuses on the interplay between the connectivity and dynamics of the brain and involves studying neural recordings and analysing the patterns of the activities.
[12] But Curto's approach uses tools from pure mathematics, particularly algebraic geometry, which is applied to the activity data of the neurons.
[2][14] Along with Katherine Morrison from the University of Northern Colorado, and with funding from the government's BRAIN Initiative grant and the NSF, Curto is working on Combinatorial Threshold-Linear Networks, CTLNs.
[15][16] Aligned with her research, Curto, alongside Morrison, also created a project called Network Songs, which originally started out as a gimmick.