Program & Schedule
Frontiers in NeuroAI
June 5-6, 2025
Program
Frontiers in NeuroAI is a two-day conference featuring podium presentations and discussions with expert speakers, a poster reception, and opportunities for discussion amongst participants.
The symposium features cutting-edge experts from neuroscience and AI discussing advances in research across both fields.
Schedule
Wednesday, June 4th, 2025
Pre-symposium workshop
| Start time | End time | Event | Location | Registration |
| 9:00 AM | 5:00 PM | Data Parallelism Workshop: How to Train Deep Learning Models on Multiple GPUs | Kempner Large Conference Room (SEC 6.242) | Separate workshop registration required. (Registration now closed) |
Note: This is an in-person workshop. Registration for this workshop is now closed.
Thursday, June 5th, 2025
| Start Time | End Time | Event | Location |
| 7:30 AM | 9:00 AM | Registration | SEC Main Atrium |
| 9:00 AM | 9:10 AM | Welcome | Winokur Hall, 1.321 |
| 9:10 AM | 9:55 AM | Theories of learning, Imagination and Reasoning: of Mice and Machines, Surya Ganguli, Ph.D. Neural Dynamics and Computation Lab, Stanford University | Winokur Hall, 1.321 |
| 9:55 AM | 10:35 PM | Computing with Neural Manifolds: Towards a Multi-Scale Understanding of Biological and Artificial Neural Networks, SueYeon Chung, Ph.D. Flatiron Institute, NYU | Winokur Hall, 1.321 |
| 10:35 AM | 10:55 AM | Break | |
| 10:55 AM | 11:40 AM | Using AI to Measure and Model Neural Dynamics & Behavior, Mackenzie Mathis, Ph.D. EPFL | Winokur Hall, 1.321 |
| 11:40 AM | 12:20 PM | Learning Compositional Models of the World, Yilun Du, Ph.D. Harvard University | Winokur Hall, 1.321 |
| 12:20 PM | 1:35 PM | Lunch | |
| 1:35 PM | 2:20 PM | Sequence Prediction through Local Learning, João Sacramento, Ph.D. Google | Winokur Hall, 1.321 |
| 2:20 PM | 3:00 PM | Summary statistics of learning link changing neural representations to behavior, Cengiz Pehlevan, Ph.D. Harvard University | Winokur Hall, 1.321 |
| 3:00 PM | 3:20 PM | Break | |
| 3:20 PM | 4:05 PM | Causality: Why Most Claims to Causality are Bogus and How to Sometimes get is Nonetheless, Konrad Körding, Ph.D. NeuroMatch & University of Pennsylvania | Winokur Hall, 1.321 |
| 4:05 PM | 4:45 PM | Illuminating Synaptic Learning, Karel Svoboda, Ph.D. Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics | Winokur Hall, 1.321 |
| 4:45 PM | 5:00 PM | Break | |
| 5:00 PM | 7:00 PM | Poster Reception | SEC Main Atrium |
Friday, June 6th, 2025
| Start Time | End Time | Event | Location |
| 7:30 AM | 9:00 AM | Registration | SEC Main Atrium |
| 9:00 AM | 9:05 AM | Welcome | Winokur Hall, 1.321 |
| 9:05 AM | 9:50 AM | Mixed-modal Language Modeling: Chameleon, Transfusion, and Mixture of Transformers, Luke Zettlemoyer, Ph.D. University of Washington & Meta | Winokur Hall, 1.321 |
| 9:50 AM | 10:30 AM | What Came First, the Sum or the Parts? Emergent Compositionality in Neural Networks, Ellie Pavlick, Ph.D. Brown University & Google Deepmind | Winokur Hall, 1.321 |
| 10:30 AM | 11:00 AM | Break | |
| 11:00 AM | 11:45 AM | Offline Cortical Reactivations of Recent Experiences, Mark Andermann, Ph.D. Beth Isreal Deaconess Medical Center & Harvard Medical School | Winokur Hall, 1.321 |
| 11:45 AM | 12:25 PM | Model Interpretability: from Illusions to Opportunities, Asma Ghandeharioun, Ph.D. Google Deepmind | Winokur Hall, 1.321 |
| 12:25 PM | 1:40 PM | Lunch | |
| 1:40 PM | 2:00 PM | An Analytic Theory of Creativity in Convolutional Diffusion Models, Mason Kamb, Stanford University | Winokur Hall, 1.321 |
| 2:00 PM | 2:20 PM | Can Your Neurons Hear the Shape of an Object? Mozes Jacobs, Harvard University | Winokur Hall, 1.321 |
| 2:20 PM | 2:40 PM | Broadly-projecting Mesolimbic Dopamine Neurons Implement a Distributional Critic Across the Striatum, Sara Matias, Ph.D. Harvard University | Winokur Hall, 1.321 |
| 2:40 PM | 2:55 PM | Excitatory-Inhibitory Dynamics in Adaptive Decision-Making, Veronica Chelu, McGill University | Winokur Hall, 1.321 |
| 2:55 PM | 3:25 PM | Break | |
| 3:25 PM | 4:10 PM | Emergent Cognitive & Neural Alignment Between Biological and Artificial Systems, George Alvarez, Ph.D. Harvard University | Winokur Hall, 1.321 |
| 4:10 PM | 4:50 PM | What do AI chatbots think about us? Implications for user transparency and control, Fernanda Viegas, Ph.D. Insight and Interaction Lab & Harvard University | Winokur Hall, 1.321 |
| 4:50 PM | 5:00 PM | Closing remarks | Winokur Hall, 1.321 |
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