List of awardees

Fall 2023 Competition

Catherine Bouchard, Département de génie électrique et de génie informatique, Université Laval

Learning a data-adaptable transform for unmixing and denoising multi-dimensional microscopy images

Focus on Microscopy 2024, Gênes, Italie, du 24 au 27 mars 2024

Superviseur.e.s: Christian Gagné & Flavie Lavoie-Cardinal

Raymond Chua, Computer Science, McGill University

Learning Successor Features with memory consolidation

Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE) 2024, Lisbonne, Portugal, du 29 février au 5 mars 2024

Superviseur.e.s: Doina Precup & Blake Richards

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

Formalizing locality for normative synaptic plasticity

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Thirty-seventh Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems - NeuRIPS 2023, Nouvelle-Orléans, LA, États-Unis, du 10 au 16 décembre 2023

Superviseurs: Guillaume Lajoie & Blake Richards

Maxime Daigle, Department of Physiology, McGill University

Modeling the neural computations underlying the distributed hippocampal representations during memory-dependent navigation

Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE) 2024, Lisbonne, Portugal, du 29 février au 5 mars 2024

Superviseur: Pouya Bashivan

Andjela Dimitrijevic, Institut de génie biomédical, Polytechnique Montréal

Autoencoder-Based Separation of Intra and Inter-Subject Brain Morphological Deformations in Pediatric Development Analysis via MRI Scans

2024 ISMRM, Singapour, Singapour, du 4 au 9 mai 2024

Superviseur: Benjamin De Leener

Frans Irgolitsch, Genie Biomedical, Polytechnique Montréal

Slice to volume registration using neural networks for serial optical coherence tomography of whole mouse brains

SPIE Photonics West, San Francisco, États-Unis, du 27 janvier au 1er février 2024

Superviseurs: Frederic Lesage & Joël Lefebvre

Andrea Luppi, Montreal Neurological Institute, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University

"Mapping della riorganizzazione funzionale del cervello indotta da patologia, farmaci, e architettura neurotrasmettitoriale" (Mapping of the brain's functional reorganisation induced by pathology, pharmacology, and neurotransmitter architecture)

13th Congress of the Italian Society of Biological Psychiatry - Treatments in Psychiatry 2023, Naples, Italie, du 25 au 28 octobre 2023

Superviseurs: Bratislav Misic & Danilo Bzdok

Motahareh Pourrahimi, Integrated Program in Neuroscience, McGill University

Predicting Behavioral and Neural Responses of the Primate Brain in Visual Search

Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE), Lisbonne, Portugal, du 29 février au 5 mars 2024

Superviseurs: Pouya Bashivan & Irina Rish

Mandana Samiei, Computer Science, McGill University

Bayesian Structure Learning with Generative Flow Networks for Enhancing Sample Efficiency in Reinforcement Learning

Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE) 2024, Lisbonne, Portugal, du 29 février au 5 mars 2024

Superviseur.e.s: Doina Precup & Blake Richards

Meriam Zid, Département de neurosciences, Université de Montréal

Humans forage for reward in a classic reinforcement learning task

Neuroscience 2023 - Society for Neuroscience, Washington DC, États-Unis, du 11 au 15 novembre 2023

Superviseur: Becket Ebitz

Summer 2023 Competition

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

Detection and Characterization of Synaptic Anomalies Using Deep Learning and STED microscopy

ICON-Europe: Highlighting Optical Nanoscopy, Jena, Allemagne, du 4 au 6 septembre 2023

Superviseur.e.s:  Christian Gagné & Flavie Lavoie-Cardinal

Sandrine Bédard, Génie biomédical, Polytechnique Montréal

Contrast-agnostic segmentation of the spinal cord using deep learning

2023 ISMRM & ISMRT Annual Meeting & Exhibition, Toronto, Canada, du 3 au 8 juin 2023

Superviseur: Julien Cohen-Adad

Renaud Bernatchez, Département de biochimie, de microbiologie et de bio-informatique, Université Laval

Crowdsourcing a rich dataset for the development of new neuroscience image analysis tools

International Conference On Nanoscopy, Jena, Germany, du 4 au 6 septembre 2023

Superviseur.e.s: Flavie Lavoie-Cardinal & Audrey Durand

(Grant declined by the student)

Kira Dolhan, Integrated Program in Neuroscience, McGill University

Assessing the Diagnostic and Prognostic Value of Three-Node Network Motifs in Coma Using General Anesthesia

Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, New York, USA, du 22 au 25 junin 2023

Superviseur.e: Stefanie Blain-Moraes

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

Quantifying High Level Representations Using Verbal Reports and Natural Language Processing

Computational Psychiatry Conference, Dublin, Ireland, du 6 au 8 juillet 2023

Superviseur: Vincent Taschereau-Dumouchel

Charlotte Maschke, Integrated Program in Neuroscience, McGill University

Outcome prediction after cardiac arrest using machine learning and network dynamics of resting state eeg

Computing in Cardiology 2023, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, du 1er au 4 octobre 2023

Superviseur.e: Stefanie Blain-Moraes & Karim Jerbi

Raghav Mehta, Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University

Evaluating the Fairness of Deep Learning Uncertainty Estimates in Medical Image Analysis

Medical Imaging with Deep Learning (MIDL) 2023, Nashville, USA, du 10 au 12 juillet 2023

Superviseure: Tal Arbel

Filip Milisav, Integrated Program in Neuroscience, McGill University

Hierarchical modularity optimizes memory capacity near criticality in echo state networks

NetSci 2023 (International School and Conference on Network Science), Vienna, Austria, du 10 au 14 juillet 2023

Superviseur: Bratislav Misic

Quentin Moreau, Département de psychiatrie et d’addictologie, Université de Montréal

Transcranial random-noise stimulation in human-machine social interactions

Joint Action Meeting (JAM), Budapest, Hungary, du 10 au 12 juillet 2023

Superviseur: Guillaume Dumas

Changjian Shui, Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University

Mitigating Calibration Bias Without Fixed Attribute Grouping for Improved Fairness in Medical Imaging Analysis

26th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2023, Vancouver, Canada, du 8 au 12 octobre 2023

Superviseur.e: Tal Arbel

Fall 2022/Winter 2023 Competition

Jonathan Cornford, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University

Exploring learning in neural networks with brain-inspired geometries

Neuroscience 2022, San Diego, USA, November 12-16, 2022

Supervisor: Richard Blake

Naga Karthik Enamundram, Institut de génie biomédical, Polytechnique Montréal

Segmentation of Multiple Sclerosis Lesions across Hospitals: Learn Continually or Train from Scratch?

Neural Information Processing Systems, New Orleans, USA, November 29-December, 2022

Supervisors: Julien Cohen Adad & Farida Cheriet

Daniel Levenstein, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University

A predictive learning model for autonomously generated replay in the hippocampus

Neuroscience 2022, San Diego, USA, November 12-16, 2022

Supervisors: Richard Blake & Adrien Peyrache

Sarthak Mittal, Département d’informatique et de recherche opérationnelle, Université de Montréal

Is a Modular Architecture Enough?

Neural Information Processing Systems, New Orleans, USA, November 28 – December 9, 2022

Supervisors: Guillaume Lajoie & Yoshua Bengio

Summer 2022 Competition

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

Detection and localization of synaptic anomalies using deep learning and super-resolution STED microscopy

Optics and Photonics in Medicine and Biology: Exploring the Role of Machine Learning in the Future of Biophotonics (Gordon Research Seminar), Lewiston, USA, July 9-10, 2022

Supervisors: Christian Gagné & Flavie Lavoie-Cardinal

Nikhil Bhagwat, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University

Assessment of brain-age prediction on longitudinal structural MR imaging data

Organization for Human Brain Mapping annual meeting (OHBM), Glasgow, Scotland, June 19-23, 2022

Supervisor: Jean-Baptiste Poline

Anthony Bilodeau, Département de biochimie, de microbiologie et de bio-informatique, Université Laval

Microscopy analysis neural network to solve detection, enumeration, and segmentation from image-level annotations

Optics and Photonics in Medicine and Biology: Exploring the Role of Machine Learning in the Future of Biophotonic (Gordon Research Seminar), Lewiston, USA, July 9-10, 2022

Supervisors: Flavie Lavoie-Cardinal & Audrey Durand

Catherine Bouchard, Département de génie électrique et de génie informatique, Université Laval

Generative Adversarial Network Assisted Super-Resolution Imaging

Optics and Photonics in Medicine and Biology: Exploring the Role of Machine Learning in the Future of Biophotonic (Gordon Research Seminar), Lewiston, USA, July 9-10, 2022

Supervisors: Christian Gagné & Flavie Lavoie-Cardinal

(Funding declined by the awardee)

Joshua Durso-Finley, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University

Personalized Prediction of Future Lesion Activity and Treatment Effect in Multiple Sclerosis from Baseline MRI

Medical Imaging with Deep Learning (MIDL), Zurich, Switzerland, July 6-8, 2022

Supervisor: Tal Arbel

Naga Karthik Enamundram, Génie biomédical, Polytechnique Montréal

Automatic segmentation of hyperintense lesions in acute spinal cord injury from T2-weighted MRI scans

Quebec Bio-Imaging Network Scientific Day 2022, Sherbrooke, Canada, June 2, 2022

Supervisor: Julien Cohen-Adad

Ziqi Hao, Medicine, McGill University

Deep Learning for Brain Extraction from a Small and Diverse Dataset of Primate MRI

Organization for Human Brain Mapping annual meeting (OHBM), Glasgow, Scotland, June 19-23, 2022

Supervisor: Amir Shmuel

Dongyan Lin, Integrated Program in Neuroscience, McGill University

Heterogeneous Representations of Variables in Task-Optimized DRL Agents Depend on Task-Relevance

The 5th Multidisciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making (RLDM2022), Providence, RI, USA, June 8-11, 2022

Supervisor: Blake Richards

Laura Suarez, Neurology and neurosurgery, McGill University

Conn2res: a toolbox for connectome-based reservoir computing

Organization for Human Brain Mapping annual meeting (OHBM), Glasgow, Scotland, June 19-23, 2022

Supervisors: Bratislav Misic & Guillaume Lajoie

Winter 2020 Competition

Anthony G.X. Chen, Computer Science, McGill University
From Neuroscience to Artificially Intelligent Systems (NAISys) Conference. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. NY, USA. March 24-28, 2020.
Supervisors: Blake Richards & Joelle Pineau
(Funding declined by the awardee)

Raymond Chua, Computer Science, McGill University
From Neuroscience to Artificially Intelligent Systems (NAISys) Conference, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. NY, USA. March 24-28, 2020.
Supervisors: Doina Precup & Blake Richards
(Funding declined by the awardee)

Victor Geadah, Département de Mathématiques et de statistique, Université de Montréal
Computational and Systems Neuroscience (Cosyne) 2020. Denver, CO, USA. February 27- March 1, 2020,
Supervisor: Guillaume Lajoie
(Funding declined by the awardee)

Samuel Laferriere Cyr, Département d'informatique et de recherche opérationnelle, Université de Montréal
From Neuroscience to Artificially Intelligent Systems (NAISys), Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. NY, USA. March 24-28, 2020.
Supervisors: Guillaume Lajoie et Blake Richards
(Funding declined by the awardee)

 Ardavan Salehi Nobandegani, Psychology, McGill University
34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2020). NY, USA. February 7-12, 2020.
Supervisor: Thomas R. Shultz

Olivier Vincent, Institut de génie biomédical, Polytechnique Montréal
7th Spinal Cord MRI Workshop, University College London. London, United Kingdom. January 20-21, 2020.
Supervisors: Julien Cohen-Adad & Sarah Lippé