Speakers

List of MAIN 2021 Speakers and Panelists

• James DiCarlo (MIT McGovern Institute, MA, USA) ➤ Reverse engineering the neural mechanisms of visual intelligence

• Surya Ganguli (Stanford University, CA, USA) ➤ Mathematical theories of neural computation: from perception and navigation to semantic cognition

• Alison Gopnik (University of California at Berkeley, CA, USA) ➤ The phenomenology and neuroscience of exploration and what it tells us about babies, psychedelics and the numinous

• Lucina Q. Uddin (University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA) ➤ Brain dynamics and flexible behaviors

• Yoshua Bengio (Université de Montréal & Mila) ➤ Consciousness and representation in biological and artificial cognition

• Bing W. Brunton (University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA) ➤ Tracking turbulent plumes with deep reinforcement learning

• Raymond Chua (McGill University) ➤ Panelist - Career paths in Neuro-AI

• Daniel Dennett (Tufts University, MA, USA) ➤ Panelist - Consciousness and representation in biological and artificial cognition

• Ahmed El Hady (Princeton University, WA, USA) ➤ Towards a mechanistic understanding of foraging behaviors

• Marta Garrido (University of Melbourne, Australia) ➤ What can sensory prediction errors tell us about altered states of consciousness?

• Jordan Harrod (Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology, MA, USA) ➤ Panelist - Inspiring the future: Activism and Advocacy in Neuro-AI

• Biyu Jade He (Neuroscience Institute, NYU, NY, USA) ➤ Predictive mechanisms in perception

• Erik Hoel (Tufts University, MA, USA) ➤ Scientific theories of consciousness are a priori falsified

• Llana James (AI, Medicine and Data Justice Post-Doctoral Fellow - Queen's University) ➤ Panelist - Inspiring the future: Activism and Advocacy in Neuro-AI

• Jean-Remi King (ENS - CNRS - Facebook AI Research, France) ➤ Language, A.I.'s myopia and the human brain

• Jason E. Lewis (Concordia University) ➤ Panelist - Inspiring the future: Activism and Advocacy in Neuro-AI

• Charlotte Maschke (McGill University) ➤ Panelist - Career paths in Neuro-AI

• Yalda Mohsenzadeh (The Brain and Mind Institute, Western University) - The role of brain recurrent processes in visual recognition

• Marieke Mur (University of Western Ontario) ➤ Representational transformations in the human visual system

• Xaq Pitkow (Baylor College of Medicine & Rice University, TX, USA) ➤ Mathematical Mind Reading

• Jean-Baptiste Poline (McGill University) ➤ Panelist - Career paths in Neuro-AI

• Irina Rish (Université de Montréal & Mila) ➤ Panelist - Reverse engineering the Brain

• Joshua Vogelstein (John Hopkins University, MD, USA) ➤ Lifelong Learning: Theory and Practice

• Anil Seth (University of Sussex, UK) ➤ Panelist - Consciousness and representation in biological and artificial cognition

• Guangyu Robert Yang (MIT McGovern Institute, MA, USA) ➤ Next-generation recurrent network models for cognitive neuroscience

• Hao Ting Wang (Université de Montréal) ➤ Panelist - Career paths in Neuro-AI

• Alex H. Williams (NYU & Flatiron Institute, NY, USA) ➤ Principled methods for comparing neural representations across biological and artificial networks

• Paul Cisek (Université de Montréal)

• Becket Ebitz (Université de Montréal)

• Karim Jerbi (Université de Montréal & Mila)

• Andrea Green (Université de Montréal)

• Guillaume Lajoie (Université de Montréal & Mila)

• Lucia Melloni (Max Planck for Empirical Aesthetics)

• Danielle Nadin (Co-Founder Black In Neuro)

• Blake Richards (McGill University & Mila)