Professor Jay McClelland is a pioneer in computational neuroscience and machine learning. He is Professor in the Psychology Department and Director of the Center for Mind, Brain, Computation and Technology at Stanford. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. He has received the APS William James Fellow Award for lifetime contributions to the basic science of psychology, the David E. Rumelhart prize for contributions to the theoretical foundations of Cognitive Science, the NAS Atkinson Prize in Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, and the Heineken Prize in Cognitive Science.
Professor Surya Ganguli is professor in the Department of Applied Physics at Stanford. His group is a diverse group of physicists, mathematicians, computer scientists, bioengineers and neurobiologists, and works on fundamental questions on the implementation of complex cognitive functions by neurobiological systems.
Professor Glushko, of the Cognitive Science Program at UC Berkeley, is a distinguished researcher and business leader. Their research in academia and industry (including Bell Labs) and directorship of several companies helped establish the backbone of business and commerce on the internet. In addition, they have endowed a number of professorial, doctoral, and undergraduate prizes within the field of cognitive science, and have written several books, including Document Engineering and The Discipline of Organizing.
Professor Nicolau is a mathematician, computer scientist, and physician, with leading research on algorithms, biological computation, and neuroimmunology. They are also a serial entrepreneur, with their most recent venture into the automated statistical management of large-scale clinical trials.
Dr Whittington is an artificial intelligence researcher and computational neuroscientist, and has introduced many of the leading frameworks in biologically inspired AI. They have recently become the chief technical adviser at Zyphra, a start up that develops technologies based on their work on local computing algorithms.
Felix is an AI researcher and entrepreneur, completing his PhD in computational cognitive science at Harvard and the Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines (MIT). They work on formal analysis of learning algorithms based on program synthesis and programming languages, and hold visiting researcher status at Google DeepMind.