Principal Investigator

Pouya Bashivan

Assistant Professor
Department of Physiology
McGill University

CV

Graduate Students

Xiaoxuan Lei

Ph.D. student

I am a Ph.D. student in Pouya’s group. I am intrigued by how intelligent behavior emerges from neuron interactions, either biological or artificial. I build computational models of primates brain with a focus on artificial neural networks. Five facts about me: have lived in 3 different continents and North America will be the 4th one; whovian (non-certified); attempted to master Dutch, failed, same with C; 2021 (the year of ox) is my year; play the violin and good at math ;)

Maxime Daigle

Ph.D. student

I’m interested in episodic memory and memory augmented neural networks. I work on building computational models of the hippocampus. Before joining the lab, I completed my Master’s degree in Machine Learning in 2021 and received my Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Computer Science in 2019. In my free time, I like to read fiction and play tabletop games.

Motahareh Pourrahimi

M.Sc. student

I am a Masters student in IPN. I received my B.S. degree in electrical engineering at University of Tehran. I am interested in understanding the brain through computational modelling and electrophysiology, working in the intersection of neuroscience and artificial intelligence. I enjoy watching movies, reading, and drawing in my free time.

Undergraduate Researchers

Helen Ren

B.Sc. student

I’m a computer science undergraduate student who is interested in modeling brain activities computationally. I currently work on using artificial neural network to model the effect of electrical stimulation across human visual cortex. I’m also interested in how this work would help with predictive coding and also improve the adversarial robustness of deep neural networks. I like to experience different things in my life: I did an internship as a software engineer in summer 2020 and also as a data analyst in summer 2021. In my spare time, I enjoy cooking and Beijing opera.

Amirozhan Dehghani

B.Sc. student

I’m an undergraduate student majoring in Neuroscience and Computer science. I’m interested in developing hierarchical artificial neural network model of the visual cortex. I enjoy playing piano and chess in my spare time.