12 Facts About Doris Tsao

Doris Ying Tsao is an American neuroscientist and professor of neurobiology and molecular cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Doris Tsao was formerly on the faculty at the California Institute of Technology for 12 years.

Doris Tsao is recognized for pioneering the use of fMRI with single-unit electrophysiological recordings and for discovering the macaque face patch system for face perception.

Doris Tsao was born in Changzhou, China before her family immigrated to the United States when she was four.

Doris Tsao grew up in College Park, Maryland and attended Springbrook High School.

Doris Tsao then worked with Margaret Livingstone at the Harvard Medical School, where she received her PhD in neuroscience in 2002 and continued to work as a postdoctoral fellow.

Doris Tsao went on to join the Allen Institute for Brain Science symposium in 2010.

Doris Tsao then became interested in using fMRI, a technique usually used to visualize the activity of brain areas in humans, to image brain regions in macaques.

Doris Tsao collaborated with Roger Tootell to use fMRI to image brain regions involved in depth perception, and then collaborated with Winrich Freiwald, a postdoctoral fellow working with Nancy Kanwisher at MIT, to combine single-unit electrophysiology with fMRI to study face perception in macaques.

Doris Tsao was named in MIT Technology Review's TR35 list in 2007.

Doris Tsao is serving on the Advisory Committee to the NIH Director established in 2018, the group that advises on allocation of $1.511 billion toward neuroscience research.

Doris Tsao has authored or co-authored numerous influential publications in the field of neuroscience, particularly in the areas of visual perception and the neural basis of cognition.