Media
Selected interviews, podcasts, profiles, and talks related to my scientific work and my memoir, Emergence.
Featured
Armchair Expert — with Dax Shepard and Monica Padman
Conversation about Emergence, growing up under difficult circumstances, and the relationship between life experience and scientific work.
Delving In — with Stuart Kelter
Neuroscientist, David Sussillo, on His Remarkable Overcoming of Profound Childhood Adversity
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Emergence, a memoir by David Sussillo — Big Think
In this preview, the Stanford professor muses on how emergence, arriving at complex patterns from simple parts, explains AI, brains, and life itself.
The Science of Resilience: David Sussillo on Surviving Chaos — Reality Life Podcast with Kate Casey
David Sussillo is a neuroscientist, technologist, and author of Emergence: A Memoir of Boyhood, Computation, and the Mysteries of Mind. Kate first met David when they were classmates at the Milton Hershey School in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
Here Are The Things That Happened in My Childhood That Impact How I Lead Today — Medium Authority Magazine
Interview on childhood experience, leadership, and the long shadow of early life. (2026)
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From Orphanage to Google Brain — Keen On America Podcast
David Sussillo on Heroin, Neural Networks and the Mysteries of the Heart
Meta NeuroScientist SHOCKED Me: Scale Alone Won’t Create Consciousness! — Into the Impossible with Brian Keating
Dr. David Sussillo (Meta Reality Labs, Stanford) explains why scaling transformers alone won't produce conscious AI — and why studying the brain may be the only way forward.
Interviews & Profiles
Neuron — Interview about my life, research, and transition to industry with a deeper take on research, the transition from academia to industry, and mentorship. (2026)
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Medium’s Authority Magazine — David Sussillo Of Meta Reality Labs And Stanford University: Here Are The Things That Happened in My Childhood That Impact How I Lead Today (2026)
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The Transmitter — “This Paper Changed My Life”
A reflection on the lasting influence of a neuroscience paper I was part of. (2025)
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Podcasts & Conversations
The Transmitter — “Force Learning and Finding a Way Out”
A conversation spanning science, biography, and finding direction. (2023)
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Brain Inspired - Omri Barak and David Sussillo: Dynamics and Structure
Omri and I discuss our contributions to reverse engineering Recurrent Neural Networks with Paul Middlebrooks. (2021)
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Talks & Lectures
Growing Up in Science
Invited lecture as part of Prof. Wei Ji Ma’s (New York University) Growing Up in Science series. (2022)
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COSYNE 2024
If you are curious about my scientific work, here I give an invited talk to the COSYNE (2024) Computational Neuroscience conference.(2024)
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Author Spotlight: Emergence: A Memoir of Boyhood, Computation, and the Mysteries of Mind — Good Day PA
