2024
Mar 01, 2024. Computational Control of a Living Brain. Harvard Magazine.
Feb 10, 2024. Congratulations to Morgan Talbot for receiving the Dean's Innovation Award for Use of AI.
Jan 30, 2024. Prof. Kreiman's talk: What do visual neurons reall want? SISSA, Trieste, Italy.
Jan 23, 2024. Neuro 140/240: Biological and Artificial Intelligence, first class.
Jan 22, 2024. Prof. Kreiman's talk: Computational models of visual search.
2023
Dec 15, 2023. KLAB hosts happy hour
Nov 12, 2023. Benjamin Chang named Rhodes scholar
Oct 31, 2023. Neurons represent time with long periodicity in the human brain See news piece and also the research article.
Oct 6-7, 2023. Center for Brains, Minds and Machines 10 year anniversary. See CBMM 10 agenda.
Oct 5, 2023. Congratulations to Sara Djambazovska for receiving the
Annaheim-Mattille prize offered by the Foundation Marguerite for her EPFL Master's thesis. You can read her thesis here..
Sep 26, 2023. Congratulations to Leonardo Pollina who was chosen as one of Italy's top ten talents in the sector of Public Service, Research and Education on the Nova 111 List Italy 2023.
Sep 12, 2023. Pranav Misra give a Grand Round talk at Cleveland Clinic.
Sep 07, 2023. Congratulations to Mengmi Zhang who was awarded the Women in Tech 2023 accolade!
Aug 22, 2023. Congratulations to Sara Djambazovska on successfully defending her thesis!
Aug 4 - Aug 25, 2023. Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course. Woodshole, MA
July 11, 2023.
Challenges and opportunities in visual recognition. Prof. Kreiman at CRCNS 2023.
July 10, 2023.
Congratulations to Alexander Luster on successfully defending his thesis!
June 28, 2023.
Volitional decisions in animals and machines. Prof. Kreiman, Sweden.
June 26, 2023.
NIH Workshop on Consciousness. Prof. Kreiman, DC.
June 7, 2023.
Jie Zheng presents a lightning talk and a poster at the Annual BRAIN Initiative Meeting.
May 24, 2023.
Congratulations to Deepak Singh for receiving the Taleizin prize for "Distinction in Art of Learning". You can read more about Deepak and his work here.
May 11, 2023.
Congratulations to Dianna Hidalgo for receiving the Kempner Fellowship.
May 5, 2023.
Congratulations to Victoria Eisenhauer who was named the
Mary Gordon Roberts MBB Summer Research Fellow.
May 3, 2023. Chenguang Li: Improving animal behviors through a neural interface with deep reinforcement learning.
Apr 4, 2023. Prof. Kreiman gave a lecture at Caltech on Computational Neuroscience.
Feb 22, 2023. Little meory editors living inside your brain. Frontiers for Young Minds.
2022
Dec 20, 2022.
Congratulations to Giorgia Dellaferrera on her thesis defense! Read her thesis here.
Dec 20, 2022. Congratulations to Serena Bono on her thesis defense! Read her thesis here.
Dec 1, 2022. Comment on Bardon's PNAS paper.
Dec 15, 2022. Congratulations to Will Xiao on his successful thesis defense! Read his thesis here.
Nov 18, 2022. Prof. Kreiman gives a Grand Rounds talk at Cleveland Clinic, Ohio.
Aug 5 - Aug 25, 2022. Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course. Woodshole, MA
Aug 16, 2022. Congratulations to Paula Sanchez Lopez on her successful thesis defense!
Jul 19, 2022. Giorgia Dellaferrera gave a talk at ICML
Jul 16, 2022. Annual meeting of the Cogitate consortium, 2022
Jul 16, 2022. Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness. Global workspace vs integrated information theory.
Jul 16, 2022. Launch of the AI @ Harvard website. https://www.ai.harvard.edu
Jul 15, 2022. Congratulations to Yuchen Xiao on her successful thesis defense!
June 17, 2022. What is a face neuron? New work by Bardon et al sheds light on shape encoding. PDF
May 11, 2022. Interview with Prof. Kreiman about career pahts
May 5, 2022. Congratualtions to Jay Chandra on receiving the Hoopes Prize for his thesis work!
April 14, 2022. Bill Lotter shows how a deep neural network architecture for predictive coding can explain key properties of visual behavior and visual neuroscience. PDF
April 2, 2022. Congratualtions to Jay Chandra on successfully defending his thesis!
April 2, 2022. Congratulations to Zergham Ahmed on successfully defending his thesis!
April 2, 2022. Congratulations to Camille Gollety on successfully defending her thesis!
March 24, 2022. Towards understanding real-world episodic memory formation. Lecture by Prof. Kreiman in Tel Aviv.
March 29, 2022. Scientists discover specific neurons involved in making memories. Discover Magazine highlights Jie Zheng's work.
March 28, 2022. Jie Zheng shows that neurons in the medial temporal lobe detect cognitive boundaries. PDF
March 18, 2022. Chenguang Li presents her work on reinforcement learning to augment cognition in C. elegans during the Cosyne conference.
March 15, 2022. Congratulations to Yael Porte on successfully defending her thesis!
March 10, 2022. Annual meeting of the Neurophiolophy of free will consortium. Palm Springs, CA.
Feb 14, 2022. Gabriel Kreiman appears in "Mi ultima neurona" podcast.
Feb 1, 2022. New book: Free will. Philosophers and neuroscientists in conversation. Edited by Uri Maoz and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
2021
Mar 31, 2021. Congratulations to Stephen Casper in his successful thesis defense! Click here to read his thesis.
Mar 31, 2021. Congratulations to Dimitar Karev in his successful thesis defense! Click here to read his thesis.
Mar 31, 2021. Congratulations to Jake Schwenke in his successful thesis defense! Click here to read his thesis.
Mar 18, 2021. Congratulations to Leonardo Pollina in his successful thesis defense! Click here to read his thesis.
Feb 16, 2021. Congratulations to Dr. Jerry Wang in his successful defense of his Ph.D. thesis!
Feb 1, 2021. New book: Biological and Computer Vision, Cambridge University Press (2021). Click here to see the table of contents.
Jan 25, 2021. The machine's gambit: AI and chess
2020
Dec 11, 2020. Towards operational and falsifiable definitions to stimulate the dialogue in the neurophilosophy of free will
Dec 1, 2020. Should models of cortex be falsifiable?
Aug 28, 2020 Congratulations to Aurelie Cordier on her successful thesis defense! Click here to read the thesis
2019
Oct 20, 2019. Congratulations to Jie Zheng for winning the Blackrock Human Single Neuron short presentation award at SFN!
Outlandish competition seeks the brain’s source of consciousness. Science 2019.
Check out the new neurophysiolosophy of free will web site
August 8th -- August 29th, 2019. Brains, Minds and Machines summer course
July 03,2019. Congratulations to Dr. Joseph Olson in his successful defense of his Ph.D. thesis!
Jun 25-26, 2019. Limitations of Deep Learning Workshop. Sestri Levante, Italy
May 31, 2019. Easy on the eyes
May 5, 2019. Computational confessions of the human brain. Gabriel Kreiman. Presented at the BrainMindSummit at MIT
May 02, 2019. Artificial Intelligence created these bizarre faces -- and monkey neurons love them. Science
May 02, 2019. Machine learning optimizes images for stimulating monkey neurons. The Scientist
May 02, 2019. AI evolved creepy images to please a monkey brain. The Atlantic
May 02, 2019. Neuroscientists peer into the mind's eye. Science Friday
May 02, 2019. A picture that does a monkey's head in. Cosmos
May 02, 2019. Computer program reveals what neurons in the visual cortex prefer to look at. Medical XPress
May 02, 2019. These trippy images were designed by AI to super-stimulate monkey neurons. Science Daily Science News
Apr 25, 2019. Mind, Brain, and Behavior poster showcase. William James Hall Library. Duncan Stothers on "A Deep Learning Model for CNS Development" and Farahnaz Wick on "A computational model of hybrid visual search"
March 21, 2019. Philosophers and neuroscientists join forces to solve the problem of Free Will. Science.
March 14-18, 2019. Second International Conference on Neuroscience and Free Will. Chapmann University
Brain institute receives over $7 million for research on neurophilosophy of free will
March 16, 2019. Brain Awareness Week at the Boston Museum of Science. Seeing with the Mind’s Eye: An Exploration of Visual Attention. Farahnaz Wick
March 16, 2019. Brain Awareness Week at the Boston Museum of Science. The brain's functional interactome. Jerry Wang
March 14, 2019. Brain's Twitter Conference 2019. Mesoscopic scale functional interactions in the human brain. Link to tweets: 1 2 3 4 5 6
Apr 14,2019. Congratulations to Dr. Mengmi Zhang in her successful defense of her Ph.D. thesis!
March 7, 2019.Finding Waldo. Zero-shot invariant visual search. Gabriel Kreiman @ Systems Neuroscience Club.
What do visual neurons really like? Insights from joint computational modeling and neurophysiological experiments. March 4, 2019. Gabriel Kreiman @ Cosyne, Lisbon, Portugal.
Automatically uncovering preferred stimuli of visual neurons using generative neural networks. Feb 28, 2019. Will Xiao @ Cosyne, Lisbon ,Portugal.
Feb26, 2019. The brain's operating system. Discussion of CBMM Module 2 @ Harvard led by Gabriel Kreiman, Will Xiao, Jerry Wang, Xavier Boix, Jerry Wang
Congratulations to Alice Motschi, who successfully defended her thesis! Feb 25, 2019
Congratulations to Vincent Jacquot, who successfully defended his thesis! Jan 19, 2019
2018
Human Single Neuron Conference 2018 @ Caltech. Nov 1-2, 2018
Harvard Brain Initiative: Bridging Theory and Data in Neuroscience. Oct 11, 2018
Congratulations to Matthias Tsai, who successfully defended his thesis! September 10, 2018
Aug 2018. Summer Student Lunch on Neuroscience
August 28, 2018. Congratulations to the Summer Course Google X fellows (Hongru Zhu and Benjamin Scellier) and the Hidary Foundation fellow (Josefina Correa)
Aug 2018. Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course
KLAB is going camping in Acadia July 20-22, 2018
June 2018. Harvard Medical School. Global and Continuing Education. Global Pediatrics Leadership Program. Understanding cognition by peeking inside the human brain, by Gabriel Kreiman.
Congratulations to Eric and Kevin Wu, who successfully defended their theses! May 8, 2018
Congratulations to Eleonora Iaselly, who successfully defended her thesis! April 11, 2018
April 2018. McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT. BrainScan. Spring 2018. Issue 44. Engineering Intelligence
April 2018. Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course now on MIT's Open Courseware
Apr 9th, 2018. Deadline to apply for the Brains, Minds and Machines 2018 Summer Course
March 26th, 2018. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. Symposium. Episodic Memory Formation: From Neural Circuits to Behavior. Boston, MA. Organized by Prof. Rutishauser and Prof. Kreiman.
March 21st, 2018. "Learning scene gist with convolutional neural networks to improve object recognition", by Prof. Kreiman. IEEE conference on Computation and Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton, NJ.
March 11th, 2018. "Biophysics of intelligence: how cognition emerges from neural computations", by Prof. Kreiman. Harvard Program in Biophysics 18th Annual Mini-Symposium. Cambridge, MA.
January 30th, 2018. "The brain's operating system", by Prof. Kreiman. University of Pennsylvania, Computational Neuroscience Initiative.
January 18th, 2018. "Peeking inside the brain's operating system", by Prof. Kreiman. GoogleX-MIT Joint symposium on brains and computation. Mountain View, CA.
2017
December 17th, 2017. "From biological intelligence to artificial intelligence", by Prof. Kreiman. International Research Center for Neurointelligence. International Symposium. Tokyo, Japan.
Fall 2017: Harvard Neuro 130 / 230 Class. Visual recognition: computational and biophysical mechanisms
September 3rd, 2017. Congratulations to the Summer Course Google X fellows (Kasper Vilken and Thomas O'Connell) and to the Hidary Foundation fellow (Heather Kosakowski)
August 13th - September 3rd, 2017. Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course. Woods Hole, MA.
August 11th, 2017. MSRP Summer Poster Session. MIT.
August 10th, 2017. Caltech. 30th anniversary of Computational and Neural Systems.
August 8th, 2017. “A journey from soccer and chess to neuroscience and artificial intelligence”. Summer Student Lunch on Neuroscience. Open to all high school & undergraduate students doing summer work at Harvard. Sponsored by the Harvard Brain Science Initiative.
July 27th, 2017. Single neuron recordings in the human brain. Summer Educational Program in Neuropsychiatric Functional Neuroimaging. Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School.
July 26th, 2017. How studying brains can help us get a deeper vision. Keynote lecture at CVPR workshop.
July 2017. William Lotter defended his thesis. Congratulations!
July 2017. Charlotte Mormann defended her thesis. Congratulations!
June 27th, 2017. Neurons don't play dice. Sigtuna Foundation Conference on Free Will.
June 23rd, 2017. How the brain solves object recognition. Prof. Kreiman at the Harvard Medical School Ophthalmology Annual Meeting.
March 27th, 2017. AAAI annual meeting. The science of intelligence, Stanford, CA.
February 2017. Gabriel Kreiman receives the McKnight award for Neuroscience research.
January 2017. An issue of Language, Cognition and Neuroscience devoted to localist representations and grandmother cells. Link to speciall issue. Link to our article.
2016
September 2016. Biological and computational mechanisms of object recognition. Neuro 130 / 230 class.
September 2016. Brains, Minds and Machines summer course
August 2016. Wendy Fernandez presents a poster at the MIT Summer Research Poster session. List of posters.
July 2016. Variability in spike train responses is not intrinsic to neurons
July 2016. Epilepsy, the great teacher. Gabriel Kreiman at the Harvard Longwood Epilepsy Grand Rounds.
June 2016. Biology of Brain Disorders 2016. Gabriel Kreiman presented: "Translation of putative non-coding RNAs and potential implications for brain disorders". Dublin, Ireland.
June 2016. Brain, Minds and Machines Workshop. Gabriel Kreiman presented: "Pattern completion: from neural to computational codes". Sestri Levante, Italy.
June 2016: Gabriel Kreiman participated in: Deep Learning: Theory, Algorithms and Applications workshop at the Center for Brains Minds and Machines
May 2016: Leyla Isik, Jedediah Singer, Joseph Madsen, Nancy Kanwisher, and Gabriel Kreiman present: Probing human intracranial visual responses with commercial movies at the Visual Science Society Annual Meeting 2016
May 2016: Longwood Medical Area Ophthalmology Conference. Gabriel Kreiman presents: Visual Recognition: How it works and what to do when it doesn't work.
May 2016: Gabriel Kreiman presented at the SIAM (Society of Industrial Conference and Applied Mathematics) in Albuquerque New Mexico. Read more here
April 2016: Prof. Kreiman gives lecture: How free is Free Will? at the 34th Annual Interdisciplinary Series hosted by the University of Chicago.
March 2016: Prof. Kreiman gives a lecture at the 50th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS) at Princeton. More information can be found here.
March 2016: Gabriel Kreiman to present at Harvard Mind, Brain and Behavior Initiative. Mind Control: Past, Present and Future
Feb 2016: Biophysical principles of brain oscillations and their meaning for information processing. Cosyne Workshop.
Jan 2016: Quantitative Methods Workshop. MIT
Jan 2016: Neural Information Processing Systems Review NIPS 2015
2015
Dec 2015: Hanlin Tang succesfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations!
Dec 2015: NIPS Symposium: Brains, Minds and Machines
Dec 2015: The roles of recurrent and feedback computations in cortex. Gabriel Kreiman. NIPS Symposium. Montreal.
Dec 2015: Predicting episodic memory formation. Gabriel Kreiman. NIPS Workshop. Montreal.
Dec 2015: Applications open for Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course 2016. Poster.
Nov 2015. The neuronal representation of information in the human brain. Book Review by Edmund Rolls.
Nov 2015: Biomedical informatics to understand and cure the human brain. Gabriel Kreiman at SHILAC 2015, Puerto Rico.
Nov 2015. Garrett Lam from the Kreiman lab wins Rhodes Scholarship
Nov 2015. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting. Nanosymposium. The Nature and Significance of Neuronal Variation. Richard Born and Gabriel Kreiman.
Nov 2015. Towards high level visual prosthetics to help the visually impaired. Gabriel Kreiman. Lighthouse Guild. New York.
Oct 2015. Lighthouse Guild Recognizes Krzysztof Palczewski, PhD and Gabriel Kreiman, PhD for Their Outstanding Contributions to Vision Science | Virtual Press Office press release
Oct 2015. Ayotunde Odejayi presents his summer research project at the 3rd annual Black Doctoral Network Conference. Atlanta, GA.
Sep 2015. Inception: towards high-level brain machine interface for the visually impaired. Gabriel Kreiman. Wills Eye Research Institute, Philadelphia, PA.
Sep 2015. Pattern completion during visual recognition. Gabriel Kreiman. Brown University.
Sep 2015. CBMM Workshop. A Turing++ Question: Who is there?
Aug 2015. Building Intelligence. MBL Catalyst.
Aug 2015. The course of the mind. Steven Ashley.
Aug 2015. Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course -- Woods Hole, MA. Aug-13-2015 through Sep-02-2015. Link to YouTube videos.
June 2015. The neuronal representation of information in the human brain. Book review by Edmund Rolls. Brain (2015). 138:3459-3462.
June 2015. Kreiman lab alumn Arjun Bansal pushes Deep Learning Start-up Nervana
May 2015: The formation of episodic memories in the human brain. Gabriel Kreiman. Klingenstein-Simons Meeting. New York.
May 2015: Lighthouse Guild Recognizes Krzysztof Palczewski and Gabriel Kreiman for Their Outstanding Contributions to Vision Science
April 2015: Biological and computational codes in vision. Gabriel Kreiman. Singapore.
March 2015: New patent awarded. Identifying and modulating molecular pathways that mediate nervous system plasticity. PDF
March 2015: Pattern completion in the brain. Gabriel Kreiman. Vanderbilt University.
Jan 2015: Towards understanding the role of feedback in cortex. Richard Born and Gabriel Kreiman. Harvard Mind, Brain and Behavior Retreat.
2014
Nov 2014: Human Single Unit Conference. Baltimore, MD.
Aug 2014: Understanding what happens inside the mind. MIT Technology Review
Dec 2014: 'Junk' DNA codes for proteins too!
Sep 2014: Brain prosthesis devices to improve memory. Article 1. Article 2. Article 3.
June 2014: Hacking the Soul
May 2014: Brains, Minds, and Machines. A Special Topics Course at MBL, Woods Hole, MA - Flyer
2013
December 2013: Brainlike Computers, Learning From Experience
October 2013: Introduction to the new Center for Brains, Minds and Machines
September 2013: MIT News - Artificial-intelligence research revives its old amibitions
September 2013: Center for Brain Science- $25 million NSF grant to team including 6 CBS faculty
June 2013: Research.gov - Deciphering Neural Codes
May 2013: Charla del neurocientifico Gabriel Kreiman "Reconocimiento visual: modelos y neuronas"
April 2013: Adevarul - Existenta liberului arbitru, pusa sub semnul intrebarii de o serie de studii neurologice
January 2013. Deciphering neural codes. NSF Career Award Snapshot.
2012
May 2012: Neurologistas e neurocirurgioes discutem desafios comuns
2011
December 2011:Frontiers in Perception Science -- Special Issue on "The timing of visual recognition"
September 2011: Taking Aim at Free Will
June 2011: New Findings on Free Will
2010
Nov 2010: Sociefy for Neuroscience Career Development Award Link 1 Link 2 Link 3
September 2010: OnlyHardwareBlog - Improving Cognition In Computers
August 2010: USNews - Improving Cognition In Computers
May 2010: NSF Career Award
Jan 2010: Stanley Anderson receives NIH K08 award
2009
September 2009: Announcement of New Innovator Awards
2008
March 2008: See our discussion about "grandmother" cells in TICS 2008 (see also the cover at TICS)
2006
Sept 2006: We moved! We are now at Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School
April 2006: Brain researchers see visual role for growth factor
