Professor of Psychological Sciences, Computer Science & Engineering, Mathematics, Neuroscience, Psychiatry, Pediatrics and Education
University of Connecticut (UConn)
San Francisco, California
Fumiko Hoeft MD PhD is Professor of Psychological Sciences, Computer Science & Engineering, Mathematics, Neuroscience, Psychiatry, Pediatrics and Education at the University of Connecticut (UConn), and Psychiatry/Neuroscience at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). She is also the Interim Director of UConn Waterbury, a regional campus of UConn; Director of UConn’s Brain Imaging Research Center (BIRC); and Director of a bicoastal lab, brainLENS.org. Fumiko received research training at Harvard, UCLA, Caltech and Stanford, and has held faculty positions at Stanford, UCSF and UConn. She studies brain mechanisms of learning and in particular reading acquisition and dyslexia through funding from NIH, NSF, private foundations and philanthropy. She has received awards from organizations such as the International Dyslexia Association (IDA; 2014, 2022), Learning & the Brain Foundation (2015), Int’l Mind Brain & Education Society (IMBES; 2018), and Society for Neuroscience (SfN; 2018). She has published over 175 articles, reviews, and book chapters, and has delivered over 275 keynotes, talks and workshops at venues from local schools, international conferences, TEDx and the White House. Her work has been widely covered in media such as The New York Times, NPR, CNN, the New Yorker, and Scientific American.
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