Viren Jain is a Fellow and Laboratory Head at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Janelia Farm Research Campus. He completed his undergraduate education at the University of Pennsylvania with degrees in Computer Science and Cognitive Science, followed by a PhD in Computation at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology. At MIT, he worked with Sebastian Seung and collaborators at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research to develop new algorithms for automated image analysis, with the goal of enabling high-throughput reconstruction of brain connnectivity. At Janelia, Viren continues to develop novel algorithmic tools, and applies them to studying specific biological questions that relate neuronal structure to function.