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Panel Session: A new hope for neuroscience
Yoshua Bengio · Blake Richards · Timothy Lillicrap · Ila Fiete · David Sussillo · Doina Precup · Konrad Kording · Surya Ganguli

Sat Dec 14 05:15 PM -- 06:00 PM (PST) @
in Real Neurons & Hidden Units: future directions at the intersection of neuroscience and AI »

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Yoshua Bengio (Mila)

Yoshua Bengio is Full Professor in the computer science and operations research department at U. Montreal, scientific director and founder of Mila and of IVADO, Turing Award 2018 recipient, Canada Research Chair in Statistical Learning Algorithms, as well as a Canada AI CIFAR Chair. He pioneered deep learning and has been getting the most citations per day in 2018 among all computer scientists, worldwide. He is an officer of the Order of Canada, member of the Royal Society of Canada, was awarded the Killam Prize, the Marie-Victorin Prize and the Radio-Canada Scientist of the year in 2017, and he is a member of the NeurIPS advisory board and co-founder of the ICLR conference, as well as program director of the CIFAR program on Learning in Machines and Brains. His goal is to contribute to uncover the principles giving rise to intelligence through learning, as well as favour the development of AI for the benefit of all.

Blake Richards (University of Toronto)
Timothy Lillicrap (DeepMind & UCL)
Ila Fiete (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
David Sussillo (Google Inc.)
Doina Precup (McGill University / Mila / DeepMind Montreal)
Konrad Kording (Upenn)
Surya Ganguli (Stanford)

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