Laurent Itti

Laurent Itti is a Professor of Computer Science, Psychology, and Neuroscience at the University of Southern California (USC), affiliated with the Viterbi School of Engineering and the Hedco Neuroscience Building. His research spans computational neuroscience, vision, and attention mechanisms.

Education

• Ph.D. in Computation and Neural Systems, California Institute of Technology (2000)
• M.S. in Telecommunications, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Paris (1994)
• B.S. in Mathematics, Tours, France (1991)

Research and Expertise

Dr. Itti's work focuses on attention modeling, neural networks, and computational neuroscience, particularly in vision systems. He leads the iLab at USC, which investigates brain-inspired computational models for visual attention.

Teaching and Software

He teaches computer science courses at USC and has developed tools like the iLab Toolkit for vision research. Notably, he created a Blackberry-IMAP integration solution to enhance email workflow.