Posts by Lena Mei

We’re excited to see BrainWideBench launch as an important new resource for advancing and rigorously evaluating general-purpose models of neural activity. Congratulations to Alexandre Andre and his team.This work is…

The Dana Foundation Board of Directors has approved an 18-month, $180,000 grant to support a new ARNI K12 initiative, NeuroAI: Intelligence in Brains and Machines, Connecting Neuroscience, AI, and Society…

Modeling and Understanding Human Brain Computation at Scale https://kriegeskorte-lab.github.io/ccn-satellite-human-brain-foundation-model Organizers: Hossein Adeli (Columbia), Pinyuan Feng (Columbia), Fan Cheng (Columbia),  Andrew Luo (HKU), and Nikolaus Kriegeskorte (Columbia) This satellite workshop brought…

ARNI Director, Richard Zemel, was the featured speaker for the Columbia Engineering Lecture in AI Series. His talk, “Integrating Past and Present in Continual Learning,” explored how AI systems can…

On April 24, ARNI hosted Ellie Pavlick as the Distinguished Seminar Series Speaker. Dr. Pavlick, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Linguistics at Brown University and Director of the NSF…

December 2nd to December 7thSan Deigo, California ARNI, in collaboration with Columbia University, Stanford, MIT, Princeton, MILA, the Donders Institute, and Meta, is organizing the “Foundation Models for the Brain…

A groundbreaking moment in Neuroscience and AI! Huge congratulations to our own Andreas Tolias and XaqPitkow (https://xaqlab.com/) and the entire MICrONS team on the release of a first-of-its-kind functional foundation…

ARNI partnered with Columbia Neuroscience Outreach (CUNO) and the Zuckerman Institute Public Programs to host two hands-on learning stations at the April 19th Saturday Science public engagement event. Designed to…

On April 25th, the ARNI Emerging Researchers (AER) Symposium at Columbia’s Zuckerman Institute brought together trainees and postdocs from partner institutions for research presentations, career talks, and networking. ARNI postdoctoral…

ARNI postdoctoral fellows Mehdi Azabou and Cole Hurwitz are among the co-organizers of the workshop “Building a Foundation Model for the Brain: Datasets, Theory, and Models” at COSYNE. This workshop is bringing…