Join us at 12:00 PM on October 10th online via Zoom or in-person at HEB 301/305 (Human Ecology Building) on the U of A campus. Registration is required for both virtual and in-person attendance. Zoom link available through registration.
Dr. Brokoslaw Laschowski is a computational neuroscientist. He works as a Research Scientist and Principal Investigator at the University Health Network – the largest research hospital in Canada – and as an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, with appointments in Neuroscience and Mechanical Engineering. He also serves as the Director of the Computational Neuroscience Lab, a leading multidisciplinary research lab that explores the intersection of neuroscience and artificial intelligence. The long-term vision for his research is to build a computational understanding of the brain and human intelligence.
In this talk, Dr. Laschowski will present his research on developing new mathematical, computational, and machine learning models to reverse-engineer or decode the brain. Some examples include:
- Deep learning models to reverse-engineer the visual information processing mechanisms in the visual cortex
- Neural decoding algorithms to predict speech and motor behaviours from patterns of neural population activity
- Reinforcement learning models to reverse-engineer how neural computations in the motor cortex control and optimize human movement
If you are attending in person and would like to enjoy our complimentary lunch, please fill out our lunch form. To keep our iSMART Talks green, we request that you please bring your own water bottle.
