Wyeth Bair received a B.S. in Computer Science from the Pennsylvania State University in 1988 and a Ph.D. in Computation and Neural Systems from the California Institute of Technology in 1996.  He was a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Neural Science at New York University before moving to Oxford on a Royal Society USA Fellowship. He is currently a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in the Basic Biomedical Sciences and is also a Research Fellow in the Sciences at St. John's College.

Wyeth Bair's research interests include neural coding and neural circuitry in the visual pathways of the brain.  He specialises in understanding how the cerebral cortex processes dynamic images that fall on the retina and how the action potentials in cortical neurons lead to our perception of visual motion.  A major focus of his work is the temporal encoding of sensory information in trains of action potentials in single neurons and in populations of neurons.  His laboratory uses both electrophysiological and computational approaches to probe the visual system and the function of cortical networks.

Further information can be found at Bair Research