David Sussillo is a world-renowned neuroscientist who spent five years at the Albuquerque Christian Children’s Home, four years at the Milton Hershey School, and earned a Ph.D. in computational neuroscience from Columbia University. Sussillo is now an adjunct professor at Stanford University and has been a scientist at the Google Brain group and Meta Reality Labs. In his professional pursuits, David researches brain-machine interfaces to develop the next generation of computers. David was the recipient of a Fulbright research grant and is an internationally recognized neuroscientist with over 40 publications. He works to understand the ghost in the machine — how cells in our brain collectively give rise to the computations that determine behavior. David has been happily married these last 17 years to his wife, Robin.