Liam Paninski (born 1978) is an American computational neuroscientist who specializes in neural data science.
[2] Paninski's research focuses on using statistics to decipher electrical signals from the brain.
[1][3] Paninski attended Brown University, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in neuroscience in 1999.
At Brown, Paninski was introduced to neuroscience research in the lab of John Donoghue.
[3] He was also influenced by applied mathematicians on faculty including Stuart Geman and David Mumford.