Arthur W. Toga, Ph.D., is Provost Professor of Ophthalmology, Neurology, Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences, Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, and Director of the USC Mark and Mary Stevens Institute of Neuroimaging and Informatics. 

Dr. Toga’s work involves neuroimaging, informatics, AI applications in neuroscience, mapping brain structure and function, and brain atlasing. His research focus is on neurodegenerative disease and specifically works on Alzheimer’s disease. Funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Alzheimer’s Association, and the Michael J Fox Foundation, among others, as well as industry partners, LONI houses one of the world’s largest computing facilities and largest brain image repositories. 

He is an author or co-author of more than 950 peer-reviewed papers, 1100 abstracts, and 80 book chapters or books. He is the founding editor of the journal NeuroImage. Dr. Toga has received numerous awards, including the Pioneer in Medicine Award, the Smithsonian Award for Scientific Innovation, and the Giovanni DiChiro Award for Outstanding Scientific Research. He holds the Ghada Irani chair in Neuroscience. He has been one of the world’s top researchers on the AD Scientific Index, Top 200 Best Scientists in Neuroscience on Research.com, and listed as one of Thomson Reuters’ and Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers for many years.