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New students often ask me: When did you feel confident about a career in academia?Whats your motivation? I don’t have all the answers, but I do have lessons learned through experience. I wrote a short piece for anyone starting, or recalibrating, their neuroscience journey. medium.com/@kohitij_716...

This article is written to further elaborate my point of view as expressed in the recent Parliamentary briefing at Ottawa organized by @braincanada.bsky.social. The article, given the context, is Canada centric but I believe is broadly applicable to many countries. medium.com/@kohitij_716...

It was a real honour to be in Ottawa today at a Parliamentary briefing led by @braincanada.bsky.social on the urgent need to harness AI for brain and mental health research. Canada has a once-in-a-generation opportunity—and the time to act is now!

🌟New Preprint

Work led by @sabinemuzellec.bsky.social, in collab with
Yousif Alghetaa, and Simon Kornblith

We introduce a neurally validated strategy "MAPS" leveraging current ANNs and XAI tools to approximate human visual strategies. Also, validated against Bubbles!
arxiv.org/abs/2510.12141

🧠 New preprint!
Recognition-trained ANNs miss a key dimension of IT coding: memorability. Jointly optimizing for both recognition and memorability yielded more brain-like visual models.
Another step toward multi-goal modeling of the ventral stream.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Come join us at University of Toronto. We're hiring a Professor of computational cognitive neuroscience.

#neuroAI #compneuro jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

Two new preprints from our lab!
@sabinemuzellec.bsky.social leads work on reverse(Brain➡ ANN) predictivity showing gaps in forward(ANN ➡ Brain) metrics shorturl.at/bnoFl
@marenwehrheim.bsky.social leads work on facial expression emerging from shared not segregated neural subspaces. shorturl.at/QAIl4

I am thankful to the Ontario Govt for awarding me Ontario’s early researcher award (ERA).The award supports us in advancing knowledge and building a strong team of trainees to develop future research leaders in Ontario. www.yorku.ca/yfile/2025/0...

Special thanks to my awesome lab!

We are excited to share our latest research at #vss2025 @vssmtg.bsky.social and learn about all things vision! Please come to our talks and posters. Looking forward to all your feedback!

Our lab had a great time sharing our work at the NETI Workshop at @utaustin.bsky.social. Lots of new, exciting work is going on in systems neuroscience!

My lab is hosting undergraduates for the SURFiN program. If you want to come to @yorku-neurophys.bsky.social @yorku-cian.bsky.social in Toronto and work on a @simonsfoundation.org funded project on using brain-inspired AI for autism research please apply!
www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/shenoy...

Thank you Dr. John Reynolds from @salkinstitute.bsky.social
for a fascinating presentation.
@jdcrawford.bsky.social
@connectedminds.bsky.social
#neuroscience

If you are at @cosynemeeting.bsky.social #cosyne2025 , please check out two posters from our lab today, one by Mualla (2-62), and the other by Jean de Dieu (2-127).

Join us on March 7 for this month's seminar. @jdcrawford.bsky.social @bjorges.bsky.social @connectedminds.bsky.social @yorkuniversity.bsky.social #neuroscience

(1/3) 🌟New preprint with @lynnkasorensen.bsky.social and Jim DiCarlo

When animals learn new object discrimination tasks, how much does their IT cortex change?

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This new article perfectly concludes my time & lessons in Jim’s lab.@JamesJDiCarlo and I propose +review SMART models of object recognition
✅ Sensory computable
✅ Mechanistic
✅ Anatomically Referenced
✅ Testable
Coming in Annual Reviews 2024
Preprint: bit.ly/3tk7u8D

Was at the launch yesterday at the Simons Foundation Social at #SFN2023! Very excited to see how this works and develops. Super cool idea (from my limited understanding)!