William Bialek

30.7k total citations · 11 hit papers
153 papers, 18.1k citations indexed

About

William Bialek is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Molecular Biology and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, William Bialek has authored 153 papers receiving a total of 18.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 78 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 53 papers in Molecular Biology and 34 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in William Bialek's work include Neural dynamics and brain function (75 papers), Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (25 papers) and Visual perception and processing mechanisms (25 papers). William Bialek is often cited by papers focused on Neural dynamics and brain function (75 papers), Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (25 papers) and Visual perception and processing mechanisms (25 papers). William Bialek collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Italy. William Bialek's co-authors include Rob de Ruyter van Steveninck, Fred Rieke, Rob R. de Ruyter van Steveninck, Michael J. Berry, Elad Schneidman, Thierry Mora, Steven Strong, Daniel Ruderman, Thomas Gregor and R. Köberle and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

William Bialek

148 papers receiving 17.6k citations

Hit Papers

Spikes: Exploring the Neural Code 1991 2026 2002 2014 1996 2006 1991 1998 1994 500 1000 1.5k

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
William Bialek United States 62 9.9k 5.0k 4.9k 3.0k 2.5k 153 18.1k
Dmitri B. Chklovskii United States 36 5.3k 0.5× 4.0k 0.8× 3.5k 0.7× 2.3k 0.8× 1.2k 0.5× 91 13.3k
Eve Marder United States 82 11.3k 1.1× 15.7k 3.2× 4.3k 0.9× 2.2k 0.7× 796 0.3× 300 22.4k
David W. Tank United States 72 14.1k 1.4× 9.9k 2.0× 5.0k 1.0× 1.1k 0.3× 5.7k 2.2× 138 32.6k
H. Sebastian Seung United States 50 4.4k 0.4× 2.7k 0.5× 3.7k 0.8× 1.4k 0.4× 6.3k 2.5× 104 25.0k
Henry Markram Switzerland 62 16.6k 1.7× 14.4k 2.9× 3.5k 0.7× 1.6k 0.5× 3.6k 1.4× 173 24.2k
Xiao‐Jing Wang United States 77 20.5k 2.1× 9.2k 1.9× 2.2k 0.5× 2.5k 0.8× 1.6k 0.6× 212 24.7k
Bard Ermentrout United States 60 10.0k 1.0× 5.1k 1.0× 2.3k 0.5× 6.3k 2.1× 710 0.3× 219 17.2k
Olaf Sporns United States 99 54.1k 5.5× 6.1k 1.2× 4.1k 0.8× 4.8k 1.6× 3.1k 1.2× 301 66.3k
L. F. Abbott United States 48 8.3k 0.8× 6.4k 1.3× 1.2k 0.2× 1.2k 0.4× 1.7k 0.7× 89 11.8k
Sacha B. Nelson United States 95 20.8k 2.1× 16.1k 3.2× 7.0k 1.4× 1.0k 0.3× 1.0k 0.4× 303 35.3k

Countries citing papers authored by William Bialek

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Fields of papers citing papers by William Bialek

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William Bialek

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of William Bialek. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of William Bialek based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with William Bialek. William Bialek is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Gregor, Thomas, et al.. (2025). Deriving a genetic regulatory network from an optimization principle. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(1). e2402925121–e2402925121. 4 indexed citations
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Łuniewska, Magdalena, et al.. (2025). Polish LITMUS Cross-Linguistic Lexical Task: Reliability, validity, and norms for monolingual 3- to 5-year olds. First Language. 45(4). 421–456.
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Bialek, William, et al.. (2023). Information Bottleneck in Molecular Sensing. 1(2). 9 indexed citations
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Bialek, William, et al.. (2020). Information-bottleneck renormalization group for self-supervised representation learning. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2 indexed citations
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Berman, Gordon J, William Bialek, & Joshua W. Shaevitz. (2016). Predictability and hierarchy in Drosophila behavior. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(42). 11943–11948. 119 indexed citations
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Tkačik, Gašper, Thierry Mora, Olivier Marre, et al.. (2015). Thermodynamics and signatures of criticality in a network of neurons. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(37). 11508–11513. 134 indexed citations
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Berman, Gordon J, Daniel M. Choi, William Bialek, & Joshua W. Shaevitz. (2014). Mapping the stereotyped behaviour of freely moving fruit flies. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 11(99). 20140672–20140672. 308 indexed citations breakdown →
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Stephens, Greg J., William S. Ryu, & William Bialek. (2010). The emergence of stereotyped behaviors in {\em C. elegans}. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2010. 2 indexed citations
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Stephens, Greg J., Bethany Johnson-Kerner, William Bialek, & William S. Ryu. (2008). Dimensionality and Dynamics in the Behavior of C. elegans. PLoS Computational Biology. 4(4). e1000028–e1000028. 332 indexed citations
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Osborne, Leslie C., et al.. (2007). Time Course of Precision in Smooth-Pursuit Eye Movements of Monkeys. Journal of Neuroscience. 27(11). 2987–2998. 60 indexed citations
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Slonim, Noam, Gurinder S. Atwal, Gašper Tkačik, & William Bialek. (2005). Information-based clustering. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(51). 18297–18302. 149 indexed citations
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Gregor, Thomas, William Bialek, Rob R. de Ruyter van Steveninck, David W. Tank, & Eric Wieschaus. (2005). Diffusion and scaling during early embryonic pattern formation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(51). 18403–18407. 244 indexed citations
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Osborne, Leslie C., William Bialek, & Stephen G. Lisberger. (2004). Time Course of Information about Motion Direction in Visual Area MT of Macaque Monkeys. Journal of Neuroscience. 24(13). 3210–3222. 114 indexed citations
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Still, Susanne, William Bialek, & Léon Bottou. (2003). Geometric Clustering Using the Information Bottleneck Method. neural information processing systems. 16. 1165–1172. 17 indexed citations
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Tishby, Naftali, Fernando C. N. Pereira, & William Bialek. (2000). The information bottleneck method. CERN Bulletin. 368–377. 584 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ruderman, Daniel & William Bialek. (1993). Statistics of Natural Images: Scaling in the Woods. neural information processing systems. 6. 551–558. 15 indexed citations
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Bruno, William & William Bialek. (1992). Vibrationally enhanced tunneling as a mechanism for enzymatic hydrogen transfer. Biophysical Journal. 63(3). 689–699. 116 indexed citations
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Joseph, Jay & William Bialek. (1992). Virtual intermediates in photosynthetic electron transfer. Biophysical Journal. 63(2). 397–411. 5 indexed citations
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Bialek, William, Daniel Ruderman, & A. Zee. (1990). Optimal Sampling of Natural Images: A Design Principle for the Visual System. Neural Information Processing Systems. 3. 363–369. 26 indexed citations
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Steveninck, Rob de Ruyter van & William Bialek. (1988). Real-time performance of a movement-sensitive neuron in the blowfly visual system: coding and information transfer in short spike sequences. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences. 234(1277). 379–414. 228 indexed citations

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