Tim Gardner

tim gardner

Tim Gardner

Associate Professor, Department of Bioengineering

Tim Gardner is an associate professor of neuroengineering in the Department of Bioengineering at the Knight Campus. His research involves songbirds, which provide a model system for studying neural circuit dynamics. Researchers in the Gardner Lab record from singing birds and develop deep-learning-based computational methods to study vocal behavior and neural activity patterns during singing. In this process, the group addresses fundamental questions about how neural circuits self-organize and how trial and error learning builds skilled motor behaviors.

Prior to joining the Knight Campus, Gardner worked as a founding member of Neuralink Corp., a company building a fully implanted bidirectional interface to the human brain. He holds a bachelor’s degree in physics from Princeton University and earned his doctorate in biology and physics at Rockefeller University. He completed his post-doctoral fellowships at Rockefeller University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.