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Invited Talk #7 QnA - Yael Niv
Yael Niv · Doina Precup · Raymond Chua · Feryal Behbahani

Sat Dec 12 02:31 PM -- 02:45 PM (PST) @
in Biological and Artificial Reinforcement Learning »

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Yael Niv (Princeton University)

Yael Niv received her MA in psychobiology from Tel Aviv University and her PhD from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, having conducted a major part of her thesis research at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit in UCL. After a short postdoc at Princeton she became faculty at the Psychology Department and the Princeton Neuroscience Institute. Her lab's research focuses on the neural and computational processes underlying reinforcement learning and decision-making in humans and animals, with a particular focus on representation learning. She recently co-founded the Rutgers-Princeton Center for Computational Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, and is currently taking the research in her lab in the direction of computational psychiatry.

Doina Precup (McGill University / Mila / DeepMind Montreal)
Raymond Chua (McGill University / Mila)
Feryal Behbahani (DeepMind)

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