About
Organization
Montreal AI and Neuroscience (MAIN) is an international conference organized by the UNIQUE Centre at the University of Montreal.
MAIN 2024 Committee: The MAIN organizing committee consists of Shahab Bakhtiari (Mila & Université de Montréal), Pierre Bellec (Université de Montréal), Andrea Green (Université de Montréal), Karim Jerbi (Mila & Université de Montréal), Guillaume Lajoie (Mila & Université de Montréal), FLavie Lavoie-Cardinal (Université Laval), Jean-Marc Lina (École de Technologie Supérieure), Bratislav Misic (MNI, McGill University), Doina Precup (Mila & McGill University), Blake Richards (Mila & McGill University) and Irina Rish (Mila & Université de Montréal).
MAIN 2024 Educational Workshop organizers and instructors: Pierre Lune Bellec, Karim Jerbi, Jean-Baptiste Poline, Pravish Sainath, Bertrand Thirion, Hamza Abdelhedi, Himanshu Aggarwal, Pierre-Louis Barbarant, Nikhil Bhagwat, Alessandro Gifford, Vanessa Hadid, Peer Herholz, Annalisa Pascarella, Melanie Segado, Hao-Ting Wang.
Coordination & administration: Josefina Rossell, UNIQUE Centre coordinator.
MAIN Scientific Advisory Board: The scientific program of MAIN is established with the help of an extended group of experts in the field of AI and Neuroscience, most of whom are members of the UNIQUE Centre.
Karim Jerbi
Doina Precup
Irina Rish
Shahab Bakhtiari
Jean-Marc Lina
Blake Richards
Andrea Green
F. Lavoie-Cardinal
Bratislav Misic
Pierre Lune Bellec
Guillaume Lajoie
MAIN Logistics Dream Team
MAIN 2024 is lucky to have the support of an outstanding group of smart and motivated students from the UNIQUE Neuro-AI research Centre:
Hamza Abdelhedi
Miriam Arseanult
Frédéric Beaupré
Ihsane Bichoutar
Cornelius Crijnen
Clara El Khantour
Niloofar Gharesi
Anisleidy Gonzalez Mitjans
Anirudh Jamkhandi
Guillaume Labonté-Pelletier
Laurence Leblond
Shawn Manuel
Avery Hee-Woon Ryoo
Pravish Sainath
Mostafa Sharifzadeh
Alejandro Salinas Medina
Elizaveta Sycheva
Phillip Thoelke
Younes Valibeigi
Charlotte Volk
Antoine Bellemare
Mar Estarellas
Support
MAIN is organized by UNIQUE, a Quebec Neuro-AI Research Center, which is primarily funded by the FRQNT and supported by 8 institutions and multiple programs. MAIN 2024 is particularly grateful for the generous support of IVADO and Cerebrum.
Previous meetings
MAIN 2021 Speakers & Panelists: Kafui Dzirasa (Duke University School of Medicine, C, USA) | Ev Fedorenko (MIT McGovern Institute, MA, USA) | Michael Graziano (Princeton Neuroscience Institute, NJ, USA) | Mohamed Abdelhack (Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, ON, Canada) | Shahab Bakhtiari (Université de Montréal & Mila, QC, Canada) | Yoshua Bengio (Université de Montréal & Mila, QC, Canada) Isil Bilgin (CNeuromod, CRIUGM, QC, Canada) | Tyler Bonnen (Stanford University, CA, USA) | Julie Boyle (CNeuromod, CRIUGM, QC, Canada) | Anne K. Churchland (University of California, CA, USA)| Claudia Clopath (Imperial College London, London, UK) | Eva Dyer (Georgia Institute of Technology, GA, USA) | Audrey Durand (Université Laval, QC, Canada) | Chris C. Emezue (Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany & Lanfrica) | Javeria Hashmi (Dalhousie University, NS, Canada) | Flavie Lavoie-Cardinal (Université Laval, QC, Canada) | Grace Lindsay (New York University, NY, USA) | Matthew Perich (Université de Montréal & Mila, QC, Canada) | David Sussillo (Meta Reality Labs, CA, USA) | Aaron Schurger (Chapman University) | Laura Suarez (McGill University, QC, Canada) | Bertrand Thirion (Université Paris Saclay - INRIA, France) | Angela Tam (Perceiv AI, QC, Canada) | Joel Zylberberg (York University, ON, Canada)
MAIN 2021 Speakers & Panelists: Yoshua Bengio (Université de Montréal & Mila) | Bing W. Brunton (University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA) | Raymond Chua (McGill University) | Daniel Dennett (Tufts University, MA, USA) | James DiCarlo (MIT McGovern Institute, MA, USA) | Ahmed El Hady (Princeton University, WA, USA) | Surya Ganguli (Stanford University, CA, USA) | Marta Garrido (University of Melbourne, Australia) | Alison Gopnik (University of California at Berkeley, CA, USA) |Jordan Harrod (Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology, MA, USA) | Biyu Jade He (Neuroscience Institute, NYU, NY, USA) | Erik Hoel (Tufts University, MA, USA) | Llana James (AI, Medicine and Data Justice Post-Doctoral Fellow - Queen's University) | Jean-Remi King (ENS - CNRS - Facebook AI Research, France) | Jason E. Lewis (Concordia University) | Charlotte Maschke (McGill University) | Yalda Mohsenzadeh (The Brain and Mind Institute, Western University) | Marieke Mur (University of Western Ontario) | Xaq Pitkow (Baylor College of Medicine & Rice University, TX, USA) | Jean-Baptiste Poline (McGill University) | Irina Rish (Université de Montréal & Mila) | Joshua Vogelstein (John Hopkins University, MD, USA) | Anil Seth (University of Sussex, UK) | Guangyu Robert Yang (MIT McGovern Institute, MA, USA) | Hao Ting Wang (Université de Montréal) | Lucina Q. Uddin (University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA) | Alex H. Williams (NYU & Flatiron Institute, NY, USA)
MAIN 2020 Speakers: Pouya Bashivan (McGill University) | Danielle Bassett (University of Pennsylvania) | Tim Behrens (University of Oxford) | Yoshua Bengio (Mila, Université de Montréal) | Stefanie Blain-Moraes (McGill University) | Ian Charest (University of Birmingham) | Paul Cisek (Université de Montréal) | Stanislas Dehaene (Collège de France) | Guillaume Dumas (Université de Montréal) | Becket Ebitz (Université de Montréal) | Alona Fyshe (University of Alberta) | Eve Marder (Brandeis University) | Lucia Melloni (Max-Planck Institute) | Lisa Miracchi (University of Pennsylvania | Ida Momennejad (Microsoft Research) | Doina Precup (Mila, McGill University) | Pradeep Reddy Raamana (University of Pittsburgh) | Blake Richards (Mila, McGill University) | Irina Rish (Mila, Université de Montréal) | Nicole Rust (University of Pennsylvania) | Anil Seth (University of Sussex) | Sara Solla (Northwestern University) | Kim Stachenfeld (Google DeepMind) | Jessica Thompson (Mila, Université de Montréal) | James Whittington (University of Oxford) | Kareem Zaghloul (NIH, NINDS) | Pamela Douglas (UCF/UCLA) | Gunnar Blohm (Queen's University)
MAIN 2019 website | MAIN hands-on training
MAIN 2019 Speakers: Blaise Agüera y Arcas | (Google AI) Ismail Ben Ayed (ETS Montreal) | Yoshua Bengio (Université de Montréal) | SueYeon Chung (Columbia University) | Radoslaw Martin Cichy (Free University Berlin ) | Patricia Conrod (Université de Montréal) | Timothy Lillicrap (Google DeepMind) | Mackenzie Mathis (Harvard University) | Richard Naud (University of Ottawa) | Amy Orsborn (University of Washington) | Sara Solla (Nortwestern University) | Susanne Still (University of Hawaii at Mānoa) | Leila Wehbe (Carnegie Mellon University) | Anthony M. Zador (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
MAIN 2018 Speakers: Yoshua Bengio (MILA, Université de Montréal) | Blake Richards (University of Toronto) | Irina Rish (AI Foundations Learning, IBM Watson Research, NY, USA) | Sebastian Stober, Machine Learning in Cognitive Science Group, Universität Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany | Danilo Bzdok, Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, RWTH Aachen University, Germany | Yves Fregnac, Unité de Neurosciences, Information et Complexité, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France. | Pascal Vincent, MILA and Facebook, Computer Science and Operations Research Dept, Université de Montréal, Canada | Michael Mozer, Univ Boulder Colorado, USA | Radoslaw Martin Cichy (Neural Dynamics of Visual Cognition Group, Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany) | Pamela Douglas (Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, UCLA, Los Angeles, United States) | Alexandre Gramfort (INRIA, Parietal Team , Université Paris Saclay, France) | Doina Precup (McGill and DeepMind, Montreal, Canada) | Daniel Yamins (NeuroAILab, Stanford Neurosciences Institute, Stanford University, CA, USA) | Tatyana Sharpee (Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, San Diego, CA, USA) | Ben D Huh (MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, Cambridge, MA, USA). Instructors for the hands-on training sessions: Andrew Doyle, Joseph Paul Cohen, Thomas Funck, Christopher Beckham, Pierre Bellec, Amal Boukhdhir, Elizabeth DuPré, Greg Kiar, Basile Pinsard, Jacob Vogel.
