List of awardees

2024-2025 Competition
Masters excellence scholarships

Reza Bayat, Département d'informatique et de recherche opérationnelle (DIRO), Université de Montréal

Enhancing Generalization and Preventing Memorization through Brain-Inspired Dynamic Neuron Localization and Adjustment in Deep Neural Networks

Supervisors: Irina Rish & Bashivan Bashivan

Yohaï-Eliel Berreby, Department of Physiology, School of Biomedical Sciences, McGill University

Auditory subcortical processing is extensive – what is it for, and how do we leverage it?

Supervisors: Suresh Krishna & Bakhtiari Bakhtiari

Vincent Chamberland, Département de psychologie, Université de Montréal

La neuromodulation guidée par l’IA dans les interactions sociales humain-avatar

Supervisors: Guillaume Dumas & Jerbi Jerbi

Lucas Gomez, Integrated Program in Neuroscience, McGill University

Scaling multi-task deep neural networks to model the human prefrontal cortex

Supervisors: Pouya Bashivan & Bellec Bellec

Anirudh Gururaj Jamkhandi, Département d'informatique et de recherche opérationnelle (DIRO), Université de Montréal

Probing compositional principles underlying flexible behavior in biological and artificial neural networks

Supervisors: Matthew G. Perich & Lajoie Lajoie

Koraly Lessard, Département d'informatique et de génie logiciel, Université Laval

Apprentissage auto-supervisé pour la caractérisation de la réorganisation synaptique dans des modèles animaux de la neurodégénération

Supervisors: Flavie Lavoie-Cardinal & Gagné Gagné

Shawn Manuel, Département de psychiatrie et d'addictologie, Université de Montréal

Mapping Inter-Individual Differences in Subjective Experience Using the Latent Space Embedding of Multimodal Neural Networks

Supervisors: Vincent Taschereau-Dumouchel & Gosselin Gosselin

Doctoral excellence scholarships

Frédéric, Beaupré, Département de biochimie, microbiologie et bio-informatique, Université Laval

Detection of Synaptic Anomalies in Neurodegeneration Using Deep Learning and STED Microscopy

Supervisors: Christian Gagné & Lavoie-Cardinal Flavie

Sungjae, Cho, Département d'informatique et de recherche opérationnelle (DIRO), Université de Montréal

A model of neocortical learning by prediction mismatch

Supervisors: Eilif Muller & Richards Blake

Maxime, Daigle, Department of Physiology, McGill University

Modeling the neural computations underlying the distributed hippocampal representations

Supervisors: Pouya Bashivan & Peyrache Adrien

Aniket, Didolkar, Département d'informatique et de recherche opérationnelle (DIRO), Université de Montréal

General Purpose Object-Centric Vision Models

Supervisors: Yoshua Bengio & Lajoie Guillaume

Frans, Irgolitsch, Genie Biomedical, Polytechnique Montréal

A Computational Approach to Quantifying Changes in the Neurovascular Unit With Hypoxic Insult

Supervisors: Frederic Lesage & Lefebvre Joël

Sarthak, Mittal, Département d'informatique et de recherche opérationnelle (DIRO), Université de Montréal

Amortized Bayesian Posterior Inference

Supervisors: Guillaume Lajoie & Bengio Yoshua

Nathan, Molinier, Genie Biomedical, Polytechnique Montréal

A generalizable framework for the automatic detection of spinal pathologies on MRI

Supervisors: Julien Cohen-Adad & Stikov Nikola

Timothy, Nest, Département d'informatique et de recherche opérationnelle (DIRO), Université de Montréal

Extending Deep Equilibrium Prop: A bioplausible framework for general artificial learning

Supervisors: Irina Rish & Muller Eilif

Jordan, O'Byrne, Département de psychologie, Université de Montréal

Unifying criticalities: Exploring the spin glass as a model of cognitive and computational diversity in brains and machines

Supervisors: Karim Jerbi & Dumas Guillaume

Soraya, Rahimi, Département de neurosciences, Université de Montréal

Dynamic connectivity in the cortical motor network while monkeys reach and grasp

Supervisors: Numa Dancause & Perich Matthew

Rishabh, Singhal, Département de neurosciences, Université de Montréal

Neural bases of exploration and exploitation

Supervisors: Becket Ebitz & Perich Matthew

Mashbayar, Tugsbayar, Integrated Program in Neuroscience, McGill University

Brain-like connections for visual processing

Supervisors: Blake Richards & Muller Eilif

Younes, Valibeigi, Integrated Program in Neuroscience, McGill University

Influence of AI Synthesized Stimulus on the Specificity of Visual Perceptual Learning

Supervisors: Christopher Pack & Bakhtiari Shahab

Michelle, Wang, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University

Learning neuroimaging biomarkers of Parkinson’s disease progression from cross-sectional and longitudinal data

Supervisors: Jean-Baptiste Poline & Glatard Tristan

Postdoctoral research funding

Colin, Bredenberg, Département de mathématiques et de statistique, Universitéd de Montréal

Scaling and testing synaptic plasticity algorithms for motor control

Supervisors: Guillaume Lajoie & Richards Blake

Olivier, Codol, Département de neurosciences, Universitéd de Montréal

In search of the teaching signal for continuous control
Supervisors: Matthew G. Perich & Lajoie Guillaume 

2023-2024 Competition

Masters excellence scholarships

Hamza Abdelhedi, Département d’informatique et de recherche opérationnelle, Université de Montréal

Linking human and artificial neural representations underlying face recognition: Combined insights from MEG and CNNs

Supervisors: Karim Jerbi & Shehab Bakhtari

Kira Dolhan, Interfaculty Studies, Integrated Program in Neuroscience, McGill University

Applying Machine Learning to Functional Brain Connectivity Data to Identify Covert

Consciousness

Supervisors: Stefanie Blain-Moraes & Karim Jerbi

Léo Gagnon, Département d’informatique et de recherche opérationnelle, Université de Montréal

Compositional Object-Centric Representations with Cortical Columns Inspired Architecture

Supervisors: Guillaume Lajoie & Blake Richards

Mahta Ramezanian-Panahi, Département d’informatique et de recherche opérationnelle, Université de Montréal

Multimodal Models for finding Brain Latent Representations (Brain2Vec)

Supervisors: Irina Rish & Guillaume Dumas

Dylan Sutterlin-Guindon, Département de psychologie, Université de Montréal

Analyses de médiation sur des patrons d’activité cérébrale multivariés

Supervisors: Pierre Rainville & Simona Brambati

Doctoral excellence scholarships

Renaud Bernatchez, Faculté des sciences et de génie, Université Laval

Multi-task attention network exploiting unlabeled data to elucidate the remodeling of the F-actin lattice

Supervisors: Flavie Lavoie-Cardinal & Audrey Durand
(Scholarship declined by the awardee)

Peter Brotherwood, Département de psychologie, Université de Montréal

Behaviorally constrained spatio-temporal scene representations in the human brain.

Supervisors: Ian Charest & Frédéric Gosselin

Léo Choinière, Département de neurosciences, Université de Montréal

Apprentissage machine pour l’optimisation de neuroprothèses évoquants des mouvements complexes

Supervisors: Numa Dancause & Guillaume Lajoie

Adrian El Baz, Génie biomédical, Polytechnique Montréal

Develop and deploy an evidence-based, comprehensive, open-source and sustainable federated learning framework for the segmentation of MS lesions in MRI data

Supervisors: Julien Cohen-Adad & Nikola Stikov

Eric Elmoznino, Département d’informatique et de recherche opérationnelle, Université de Montréal

Improving artificial intelligence using insights from the inner workings of human consciousness

Supervisors: Guillaume Lajoie & Yoshua Bengio

Xanthy Lajoie, Département de psychologie, Université de Montréal

Les différences entre les sexes dans le réseau fonctionnel du langage

Supervisors: Simona Brambati & Pierre Bellec

Antoine Légaré, Département de biochimie, de microbiologie et de bio-informatique, Université Laval

Influence des neuromodulateurs sur les états cérébraux du poisson-zèbre en développement

Supervisors: Patrick Desrosiers & Paul De Koninck

Filip Milisav, Integrated Program in Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University

Mapping structure to computational function in the human connectome using reservoir computing

Supervisors: Bratislav Misic & Guillaume Lajoie

Marie-Eve Picard, Département de psychologie, Université de Montréal

Intégration de signaux psychophysiologiques pour l’optimisation de modèles neurocomportementaux individuels de la performance à des jeux vidéo

Supervisors: Pierre Rainville & Pierre Bellec

(Scholarship declined by the awardee)

Jacob Sanz-Robinson, Neuroscience IPN, McGill University

NeuroCI: Continuous Integration of Neuroimaging Results Across Software Pipelines and Datasets

Supervisors: Jean-Baptiste Poline & Tristan Glatard

Postdoctoral research funding

Katarzyna Jurewicz, Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University

Goal-directed search during active vision

Supervisors: Suresh Krishna & Irina Rish

Agah Karakuzu, Génie biomédical, Polytechnique Montréal

Removing artificial variance for artificial intelligence: Self-driving MRI acquisition powered by AI to minimize data bias

Supervisors: Nikola Stikov & Pierre Bellec

Daniel Levenstein, Medicine, McGill University

Modeling sleep dependent learning in artificial neural networks

Supervisors: Blake Richards & Adrien Peyrache

Andrea Luppi, Montreal Neurological Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University

Synergistic information in artificial and biological neural networks

Supervisors: Bratislav Misic & Danilo Bzdok

2022-2023 Competition 

Masters excellence scholarships

Frédéric Beaupré, Faculté des sciences et de génie, Université Laval

Deep Learning for the detection of synaptic anomalies in super-resolution microscopy

Supervisors: Christian Gagné & Flavie Lavoie-Cardinal

Léo Choinière, Département de Neurosciences, Université de Montréal

Apprentissage machine pour l'optimisation de neuroprothèses évoquants des mouvements complexes

Supervisors: Numa Dancause & Guillaume Lajoie

(Scholarship declined by the awardee)

Nanda Harishankar Krishna, Département d'informatique et de recherche opérationnelle, Université de Montréal

Probing learning dynamics in recurrent neural networks and the brain

Supervisors: Guillaume Lajoie & Blake Richards

Nizar Islah, Département d'informatique et de recherche opérationnelle, Université de Montréal

Computational Modeling of Neocortical mechanisms for Continual Learning

Supervisors: Eilif Muller & Irina Rish

Poune Mirzazadeh, Département de Neurosciences, Université de Montréal

Computational modeling of the distributed brain circuits of decision-making

Supervisors: Paul Cisek & Andrea Green

Diganta Misra, Département d'informatique et de recherche opérationnelle, Université de Montréal

Distillation and Reprogramming in unbalanced long sequences under anytime learning regime

Supervisors: Irina Rish & Pouya Bashivan

Motahareh Pour Ahimi, Integrated Program in Neuroscience, McGill University

Developing a Generalized Computational Model of Attention in Primates

Supervisors: Pouya Bashivan & Guillaume Lajoie

Alyssia Sanchez, Department of Bioengineering, McGill University

Establishing Neurophysiological Evidence for the Treatment of Coma

Supervisors: Stefanie Blain-Moraes & Karim Jerbi

(Scholarship declined by the awardee)

Enning Yang, Integrated Program in Neuroscience, McGill University

Linking AI's understanding with naturalistic stimuli with human brain activity

Supervisors: Danilo Bzdok & Bratislav Misic

Doctoral excellence scholarships

Muni Venkata Naga Karthik Enamundram, Génie biomédical, Polytechnique Montréal

A Probabilistic Continual Learning Framework for Multiple Sclerosis Lesion Segmentation

Supervisors: Julien Cohen-Adad & Farida Cheriet

Simon Faghel-Soubeyrand, Département de psychologie, Université de Montréal

Decoding real-world perceptual ability variations in humans using brain imaging and machine learning

Supervisors: Frédéric Gosselin & Ian Charest

Busra Tugce Gurbuz, Quantitative Life Sciences, McGill University

A Neuroscience Inspired Approach To Continual Few-Shot Learning

Supervisors: Christopher Pack & Eilif Muller

Catherine Landry, Département de psychologie, Université de Montréal

Différences individuelles dans la perception et l’imagerie mentale de scènes visuelles étudiées avec la neuroimagerie et l'apprentissage machine

Supervisors: Ian Charest & Frédéric Gosselin

Charlotte Maschke, Integrated Program in Neuroscience, McGill University

Classifying current and future states of consciousness using dynamic EEG responses to anesthesia

Supervisors: Stefanie Blain-Moraes & Karim Jerbi

Postdoctoral research funding

Quentin Moreau, Département de psychiatrie, Université de Montréal

CLONE: CLOsed-loop NEuromodulation: EEG-tES combination in human-machine social interactions

Supervisors: Guillaume Dumas & Karim Jerbi

Melanie Segado, Département de mathématiques et de statistique, Université de Montréal

Transmodality of Co-Adaptive Algorithms In Neural Interfacing (

Supervisors: Guillaume Lajoie & Blake Richards

(Scholarship declined by the awardee)

Hao-Ting Wang, Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal, Université de Montréal

Impact of age and sex on transdiagnostic brain biomarkers amongst neurodegenerative conditions

Supervisors: Pierre Bellec & Jean-Baptiste Poline

(Scholarship declined by the awardee)

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