# James DiCarlo

> James DiCarlo is a startup investor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. See 0 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Massachusetts Institute of Technology](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/massachusetts-institute-of-technology-mit)
- Location: Boston, United States
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-dicarlo-04466b9/

James DiCarlo is a startup investor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston. Dr. Jim DiCarlo is Department Head and Peter de Florez Professor of Neuroscience in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and an Investigator at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT. He earned his Ph.D. in biomedical engineering and M.D. from The Johns Hopkins University in 1998, and did his postdoctoral training in primatevisual neurophysiology at Baylor College of Medicine. He joined the MIT faculty in 2002 and was awarded tenure in 2009. He is an Alfred Sloan Fellow, a Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences, and a McKnight Scholar in Neuroscience. His group is currently using a combination of large-scale neurophysiology, brain imaging, optogenetic methods, and high-throughput computational simulations to understand the neuronal mechanisms and fundamental cortical computations that underlie the construction of these powerful image representations. They aim to use this understanding to inspire and develop new machine vision systems, to provide a basis for new neural prosthetics (brain-machine interfaces) to restore or augment lost senses, and to provide a foundation upon which the community can understand how high-level visual representation is altered in human conditions such as agnosia, autism, and dyslexia.

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## About Massachusetts Institute of Technology

VC Fund · Cambridge, United States

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a research university that conducts research and offers educational courses in science, technology, and engineering. Its five schools and one college encompass numerous academic departments, divisions, and degree-granting programs as well as interdisciplinary centers, laboratories, and programs.Degrees earned at MIT include bachelor’s, master’s, and doctorate.Students from MIT are regularly named Fulbright Fellows, Marshall Scholars, Rhodes Scholars, Truman Scholars, and Gates Scholars.The faculty of MIT has won numerous awards, including the Nobel Prize, Medal of Science, John Bates Clark Medal, Fields Medal, PECASE awards, MacArthur ’genius’ grants, and more. Many faculty members are of the AAAS, IEEE, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and other prestigious societies.

5 contacts available at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Daniela Rus | Professor of EECS | — |
| David DesJardins | Member of the Corporation | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-desjardins |
| James DiCarlo | Head, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences | — |
| Mick Mountz | Dean's Advisory Committee, School of Engineering | — |
| Paula T. Hammond | Head, Department of Chemical Engineering | — |

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