Max received his BA-MA in Experimental Psychology from the University of Trieste, Italy and his PhD from the Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems at Boston University, where he is currently the director of the Neuromorphics Lab. His research interests are focused on neural networks - in particular applied to spiking-based neural models of learning and memory in the cerebral cortex. With a few colleagues, he founded Neurala LLC in 2006 to commercialize brain-based software. For more info, visit www.maxversace.com