Speaker and Discussant Bios
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Stachenfeld, Kimberly
Kimberly Stachenfeld is a Research Scientist on DeepMind‘s Neuroscience team. Her research centers on understanding relational reasoning in brains and improving it in machines. Her research has included work on graph neural networks, models of relational reasoning in hippocampal circuits, and methods for estimating functional connectivity from fMRI data. She received her PhD in Quantitative…
February 16, 2021
Sterling, Amy
Amy Sterling is Executive Director of EyeWire, the virtual reality game that is designed to help researchers map the brain. EyeWire was launched over four years ago and is among a growing number of citizen science endeavors that is flourishing through crowdsourcing (the practice of obtaining input into a task by enlisting the services of…
January 19, 2021
Sternson, Scott
Scott received his PhD in Chemistry from Harvard University, working with Stuart Schreiber on the synthesis and development of new probes to manipulate cellular function. After realizing a desire to work on a fundamental behavioral problem using molecular genetics integrated with neurophysiology, he did a postdoc with Jeff Friedman at Rockefeller University and also worked…
January 12, 2021
Streiffer, Stephen
Stephen Streiffer is the Deputy Laboratory Director for Science and Technology, Interim Associate Laboratory Director for Photon Sciences, and Director of the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne. The Photon Sciences directorate consists of the X-ray Science, Accelerator Systems and Advanced Photon Source Engineering Support divisions, which comprise the Advanced Photon Source (APS); and the Argonne…
April 1, 2021
Szalay, Alex
Alexander Szalay is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor and Professor in the Department of Computer Science. He is the Director of the Institute for Data Intensive Science. He is a cosmologist, working on the statistical measures of the spatial distribution of galaxies and galaxy formation. He is a Corresponding Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences,…
January 30, 2021
Tolias, Andreas
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…
January 18, 2021
Turner, Nicholas
Nicholas L. Turner is a Ph.D. candidate advised by H. Sebastian Seung in the Computer Science department at Princeton University. His work has helped to improve neural circuit reconstruction from electron microscopy (EM) volumes, and includes careful study of the resulting large scale reconstructions. His software has also been a key component towards producing some…
January 21, 2021
Uram, Tom
Tom Uram is a computer scientist at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility at Argonne National Laboratory, where his work has centered on the use of supercomputers for large-scale computational science. In this respect, he has worked in diverse areas, including proton computed tomography, particle physics, cosmology, and most recently in scaling connectomics applications on Argonne’s…
January 18, 2021
Vaziri, Alipasha
Alipasha Vaziri is the Associate Director of the Kavli Neuronal Systems Institute, and a Professor at The Rockefeller University where he studies how large-scale dynamics of neuronal networks are related to brain functions and behavior. To do so, his lab develops and applies new optical neurotechnologies through which the lab has consistently pushed the limits…
Vogelstein, Joshua
Joshua Vogelstein is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, with joint appointments in Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Neuroscience, and Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins University. He is affiliated with the Institute for Computational Medicine, the Center for Imaging Science, and the Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute, and is…
April 8, 2021
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