Gail Carpenter

Gail Alexandra Carpenter
Alma materUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison
University of Colorado-Boulder
Known forAdaptive Resonance Theory (ART), neural network models and applications
Spouse(s)Stephen Grossberg
(m. 1979–)
AwardsIEEE Neural Networks Pioneer (2008)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics, Neuroscience
InstitutionsBoston University, Northeastern University, MIT
ThesisTraveling wave solutions of nerve impulse equations
Academic advisorsCharles C. Conley

Gail Alexandra Carpenter is an American cognitive scientist, neuroscientist and mathematician, known for her work with Stephen Grossberg developing adaptive resonance theory, a theory of how the human brain processes information, and for her work on the Hodgkin–Huxley model of how neurons operate.

She is a professor emerita of mathematics and statistics at Boston University, where she was also a professor of cognitive and neural systems.