Thad Anderson Polk

So several of the people that we've had on this podcast, Bob and Elizabeth Bjork, they were mathematicians, and then they turned into psychologists.

And Thad Polk was also computer science.

He turned into neuroscience.

Jack Feldman was a physicist, I believe, and he turned into neuroscience.

Thank you for joining us for today's special Academy podcast.

Our guest is Dr. Thad Polk.

He's an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, which is Michigan's highest honor for teaching, and one of The Princeton Review's best professors in the country.

Thad started out as a math major, became fascinated by how the brain works, and trained under one of the founding fathers of artificial intelligence.

He's curious, he's funny, he's generally warm.

He's also an identical twin, which creates an interesting twist to the story, as he will explain through the podcast.

The world has some amazing people in it, and Dr. Thad Polk is definitely one of them.

Thad's a wonderful human being, and I'm proud to call him a friend, and I hope you find the conversation as fascinating as I did.