Rate My Professor Shreesh Mysore

Shreesh Mysore is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins University. He holds a Ph.D. in Control and Dynamical Systems with a minor in Neurobiology from the California Institute of Technology in 2007, an M.A. in Mathematics from Pennsylvania State University in 2000, an M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Pennsylvania State University in 1999, and a B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 1997. Following his doctoral studies, Mysore served as a Postdoctoral Scholar in Neurobiology at Stanford University from 2006 to 2011, then as a Basic Life Science Research Associate there from 2011 to 2013. He joined Johns Hopkins University as an Assistant Professor in Psychological and Brain Sciences in September 2013 and was promoted to Associate Professor.

Mysore's research centers on neural circuits underlying behavior, with a focus on attention and decision-making. His lab employs computational neuroscience and comparative methods, studying these processes in the barn owl midbrain to uncover circuit mechanisms. He received the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award in 2021 for work on neural circuit mechanisms of spatial target selection. Previous honors include the Dean’s Postdoctoral Fellowship from Stanford University School of Medicine in 2008 and 2009, finalist for the Sammy Kuo Award for postdoctoral research excellence from the Stanford Neuroscience Institute in 2012, first-place poster awards at Stanford Institute retreats and symposia, and various travel fellowships. Key publications include "A shared inhibitory circuit for both exogenous and endogenous control of stimulus selection" (Nature Neuroscience, 2013), "Reciprocal inhibition of inhibition: A circuit motif for flexible categorization in stimulus selection" (Neuron, 2012), "Signaling of the strongest stimulus in the owl optic tectum" (Journal of Neuroscience, 2011; cover article), "Global inhibition and stimulus competition in the owl optic tectum" (Journal of Neuroscience, 2010), "Stimulus-driven competition in a cholinergic midbrain nucleus" (Nature Neuroscience, 2010), and "Categorical Signaling of the Strongest Stimulus by an Ensemble of Inferior Colliculus Neurons" (Journal of Neuroscience, 2020). His findings have advanced models of competitive stimulus selection in midbrain networks.