Professor Sanjay Manohar

About

Professor Sanjay Manohar is a computational neurologist at the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences. He works at the intersection of biological brain science and artificial neural networks that simulate thought. His recent work provides computational accounts of motivation, memory, language and social cognition at the level of neurons. The models emphasise explaining human behaviour, neural representations and how they go wrong in neurological and psychiatric diseases.

Professor Manohar has written a book on scientific computer programming, Good Coding Practice for Science, and a children’s book about the brain, Adventures of the Brain (2024).

He has experience in industry with five years' consulting for AI companies, and in clinical medicine with 12 years as an NHS consultant in dementia. He is a Medical Informatics Lead, responsible for deployment of clinical software tools at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust.