Presenter Gerald Pao Dr. Gerald Pao began his scientific career studying protein evolution at UC San Diego, working with Milton Saier, Joseph Kraut, and others. He then pursued epigenetics and viral vector development at the Salk Institute during his PhD and postdoc with Inder Verma. His work on stem cells and regeneration led him to… Continue reading Gerald Pao | Algorithms to Map Neural Activity to Behavior
Presenter Nathan Helm-Burger Nathan studied neuroscience in graduate school, then spent five years working in industry as a data scientist and machine learning engineer. He has spent the last four years studying AI alignment and safety. His research topics have been: AI capability forecasting, AI Biorisk Evaluation, Corrigibility, and how we can learn from neuroscience… Continue reading Nathan Helm-Burger | Bottlenecks in the Brain
Presenter Sergey Stavisky Sergey Stavisky received his Sc.B. in Neuroscience from Brown University in 2008, after which he worked as a research engineer in the BrainGate group for two years. Sergey completed his PhD in neurosciences at Stanford University in 2016, where he studied motor cortical control of reaching and developed brain-computer interfaces in a… Continue reading Sergey Stavisky | An Intracortical Brain-computer Interface For Restoring Speech
