Speakers & Organizers

Scheduled speakers

Bringing together researchers from AI, neuroscience, cognitive science, and related disciplines, our speakers examine the principles governing learning and training dynamics across natural and artificial systems. 

Lilach Avitan

Assistant Professor, HUJI/ELSC

Karolina Dziugaite

Senior Research Scientist, Google DeepMind

Surya Ganguli

Professor of Applied Physics, Stanford

Dileep George

Head of AI Research, Astera

Erin Hecht

Associate Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University

Devon Jarvis

Lecturer, MIND Fellow, University of the Witwatersrand/MIND Institute

Julia Kempe

Silver Professor of Computer Science, Mathematics and Data Science, NYU Director of Research, AmiLabs

Venkatesh Murthy

Raymond Leo Erikson Life Sciences Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology Paul J. Finnegan Family Director, Harvard University

Bence Olveczky

Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University

Aditi Raghunathan

Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University

Leslie Valiant

T. Jefferson Coolidge Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Harvard University

Anthony Zador

The Alle Davis and Maxine Harrison Professor of Neurosciences, Cold Spring Harbor

Workshop organizers

Bingbin Liu

Kempner Research Fellow

Cengiz Pehlevan

Kempner Associate Faculty, Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics

David Alvarez-Melis

Kempner Institute Associate Faculty, Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Naomi Saphra

Kempner Research Fellow