Dr. Andreas Tolias’ research is focused on understanding how brains give rise to intelligence. His lab combines imaging, electrophysiological, molecular and behavioral methods with machine learning approaches to decipher the neocortical circuit principles of perceptual inference. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Systems and Computational Neuroscience and postdoctoral training at the Max-Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics. He has received numerous awards including the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, the Beckman Foundation Young Investigator Award, the McNight Foundation Scholar Award and the Michael E. DeBakey Excellence in Research Award. Dr. Tolias is also a co-founder of the Neuroscience-Inspired Networks for Artificial Intelligence organization and is leading an international team of scientists and engineers working on the interface between brain research and machine intelligence with the goal of engineering less artificial and more intelligent algorithms.