External links
- Gail Carpenter publications indexed by Google Scholar
- INNS You Tube video interview with Gail Carpenter, Recorded January 14, 2021.
- Boston University Staff web page for Professor Gail Carpenter.
Gail Alexandra Carpenter | |
|---|---|
| Education | University of Wisconsin–Madison University of Colorado Boulder |
| Known for | Adaptive Resonance Theory (ART), neural network models and applications |
| Spouse(s) | Stephen Grossberg (m. 1979–) |
| Awards | IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer (2008) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics, Neuroscience |
| Workplaces | Boston University, Northeastern University, MIT |
| Thesis | Traveling wave solutions of nerve impulse equations |
Academic advisors | Charles C. Conley |
Gail Alexandra Carpenter is an American cognitive scientist, neuroscientist and mathematician, known for her work with Stephen Grossberg developing adaptive resonance theory, a theory of how the human brain processes information, and for her work on the Hodgkin–Huxley model of how neurons operate.
She is a professor emerita of mathematics and statistics at Boston University, where she was also a professor of cognitive and neural systems.
Carpenter attended the International School of Geneva then went to the University of Colorado. She completed her Ph.D. in mathematics in 1975 at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, with the dissertation Traveling Wave Solutions of Nerve Impulse Equations supervised by Charles C. Conley.
Carpenter was a faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at Northeastern University before joining Boston University.
Carpenter was the first woman to receive the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Neural Networks Pioneer Award in 2008. She received the International Neural Network Society (INNS) Gabor Award in 1999.
She is a Fellow of the INNS, and was named as an IEEE Fellow in 2013.
Carpenter married Stephen Grossberg in 1979.
