Shahab Bakhtiari

Professeur adjoint

Faculté des arts et des sciences - Département de psychologie

Biography

Shahab Bakhtiari is an Assistant Professor at the University of Montreal. He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees in Electrical Engineering from University of Tehran. He then went on to earn a PhD in Neuroscience from McGill University. After completing his PhD, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Mila Quebec AI Institute, where he focused on research at the intersection of neuroscience and artificial intelligence.

Affiliations

Membre – MILA — Institut des algorithmes d'apprentissage de Montréal

Areas of Expertise

Shahab's research is centered at the intersection of neuroscience and AI, also known as NeuroAI. Specifically, he examines visual perception and learning in both biological brains and artificial neural networks. He uses deep learning as a computational framework to model learning and perception in the brain, and leverages our understanding of the nervous system to create more biologically-inspired artificial intelligence.

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Union Neurosciences et Intelligence Artificielle Québec (UNIQUE) Projet de recherche au Canada / 2022 - 2029

Lead researcher : Karim Jerbi

Co-researchers : Yoshua Bengio , Christian Casanova , Frédéric Gosselin , John Francis Kalaska , Philippe Langlais , Pierre Rainville , Richard Robitaille , Pierre Jolicoeur , Paul Cisek , Numa Dancause , Sarah Lippé , Andrea Michelle Green , Simona Maria Brambati , Roberto Araya , Pierre-Louis Bellec , Guillaume Lajoie , Irina Rish , Becket Ebitz , Guillaume Dumas , Eilif B. Muller , Ian Charest , Vincent Taschereau-Dumouchel , Shahab Bakhtiari , Julien Cohen-Adad , Frédéric Lesage , Alan C Evans , Doina Precup , Maxime Descoteaux , Tal Arbel , Jean-Marc Lina , Farida Cheriet , Erik P. Cook , Christian Gagné , Yves De Koninck , Simon Duchesne , Stefanie Blain-Moraes , François Laviolette , Julien Doyon , Bratislav Misic , Paul De Koninck , Simon Hardy , Nicolas Doyon , Thomas R Shultz , Christopher Pack , Amir Shmuel , Nikola Stikov , Kevin Whittingstall , Habib Benali , Ismail Ben Ayed , Patrick Desrosiers , Jean-Baptiste Poline , Audrey Durand , Danilo Bzdok , Marie-Jean Meurs , Flavie Lavoie-Cardinal , Caroline Ménard , Benjamin De Leener , Hervé Lombaert , Joël Lefebvre , Pouya Bashivan , Blake Richards , Suresh Krishna , Hassan Rivaz

Funding sources: FRQNT/Fonds de recherche du Québec - Nature et technologies (FQRNT)

Grant programs: PVXXXXXX-(RS) Programme de regroupements stratégiques