# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/doris-tsao
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:46:58.979Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/doris-tsao"
name: "Doris Tsao"
slug: "doris-tsao"
description: "Doris Ying Tsao is an American neuroscientist and professor of neurobiology and molecular cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley. She was formerly on the faculty at the California Institute of Technology for 12 years. She is recognized for pioneering the use of fMRI with single-unit electrophysiological recordings and for discovering the macaque face patch system for face perception. She is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and the director of the T&C Chen Center for Systems Neuroscience. She won a MacArthur \"Genius\" fellowship in 2018. Tsao was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2020. In 2024 she was awarded a Kavli Prize in neuroscience along with Nancy Kanwisher and Winrich Freiwald for the discovery and study of specific areas in the brain that perform facial recognition. In 2024, Tsao received the Rosenstiel Award. After joining UC Berkeley in 2021, her current research \nexplores visual perception in primates in order to understand how the brain creates our sense of reality."
tagline: "American neuroscientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Doris_Tsao.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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birthDate: "1975"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  historical:           7.425524
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 4
platforms:
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    handle:    "doristsao"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump