Anthony Zador, MD, PhD

Alle Davis Harris Professor of Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Over the past decade, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has made stunning advances, from mastering language to solving the structure of proteins. These breakthroughs arise from more than forty years of work in neural networks, where ideas from

neuroscience have inspired solutions in AI. In this lecture, Anthony Zador, MD, PhD, will explore how reverse engineering the brain's computations has driven progress in both fields, and how this back-and-forth between neuroscience and AI is set to grow even stronger — with brain-inspired designs driving new AI advances while AI tools transform our understanding of how the brain works.

Dr. Zador works at the intersection of neuroscience and artificial intelligence. He is the Alle Davis Harris Professor of Biology at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, where he served as Chair of Neuroscience. He was named one of Foreign Policy's

100 Leading Global Thinkers and is a recipient of the Brain Research Foundation Fellowship, the Gill Symposium Transformative Investigator Award, and the Allen Distinguished Investigator Award.

Learn more at stonybrook.edu/mindbrain

Free Presentation • Intended for a General Audience

Hosted by the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior

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