He received a M.Sc. in Theoretical Physics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Arizona in 1997, where together with Bruce McNaughton he developed a continuous-attractor theory of hippocampal spatial maps. He joined George Mason University in 2000. His current research focuses on biologically inspired cognitive architectures (BICA), supported by a DARPA grant. Dr. Samsonovich is the Founding Chair of the annual BICA conference since 2008, the Editor-in-Chief of the Elsevier journal BICA since 2012, an editor of several books and journal issues, a member of several editorial boards, a frequent ad hoc referee. His publications deserved journal cover awards in five mainstream journals, and his Web of Science citation index is 700.