List of awardees

Fall 2024 Competition

Marjorie Côté, Département de psychiatrie et d’addictologie, Université de Montréal

Are Different Kinds of Subjective Fears Represented Differently in the Human Brain?

Neuroscience 2024 (SfN), Chicago (États-Unis), du 5 au 9 octobre 2024

Supervisor: Vincent Taschereau-Dumouchel

Andréanne Deschênes, Département de biochimie, microbiologie et bio-informatique, Université Laval

Increased resolution and multiplexing of super-resolution microscopy images using fluorescence lifetime for the study of synaptic plasticity in neurons

EPFL Latsis Symposium on Smart Microscopy, Lausanne (Suisse), du 21 au 22 octobre 2024

Supervisors: Flavie Lavoie-Cardinal & Paul De Koninck

Aleksei Efremov, Integrated Program in Neuroscience, McGill University

NeuroAI model of hippocampal-striatal interaction during spatial navigation

Neuroscience 2024 (SfN), Chicago (États-Unis), du 5 au 9 octobre 2024

Supervisors: Adrien Peyrache & Blake Richards

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

Sources of richness and ineffability for phenomenally conscious states

Models of Consciousness 2024, Bamberg (Allemagne), du 30 septembre au 4 octobre 2024

Supervisors : Yoshua Bengio & Guillaume Lajoie

Antoine Théberge, Département d’informatique, Université de Sherbrooke

TractOracle: towards an anatomically-informed reward function for RL-based tractography

27th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention - MICCAI 2024, Marrakech (Maroc), 6-10 Octobre 2024

Supervisor: Maxime Descoteaux

Summer 2024 Competition

Saeideh Davoudi, Département de neurosciences, Université de Montréal

Brain correlates of neurodevelopment in neurotypical and clinical populations

The International Congress of Infant Studies (ICIS), Glasgow, Écosse, du 8 au 10 juillet 2024

Supervisor: Sarah Lippé

Nima Fathi, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, McGill University

DeCoDEx: Confounder Detector Guidance for Improved Diffusion-based Counterfactual Explanations

Medical Imaging with Deep Learning (MIDL) 2024, Paris, France, du 3 au 5 juillet 2024

Supervisor: Tal Arbel

Inés Gonzalez Pepe, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Concordia University

Fuzzy PyTorch: Rapid Numerical Uncertainty Quantification for Deep Learning Models

Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) 2024 Annual Meeting, Séoul, Korea, du 23 au 27 juin 2024

Supervisor: Tristan Glatard

Yann Harel, Département de psychologie, Université de Montréal

Waves of attention: Tracking the neural correlates of sustained attention with Magnetoencephalography

Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC), Tokyo, Japon, du 2 au 5 juillet 2024

Supervisors: Karim Jerbi & Pierre Bellec

Audrey Lamy-Proulx, Département de psychologie, Université de Montréal

Unveiling Mental Imagery: Enhanced Mental Images Reconstruction using EEG and the Bubbles Method

Vision Science Society Annual Meeting (VSS) 2024, St. Pete Beach, Floride, États-Unis, du 17 au 22 mai 2024

Supervisors: Ian Charest & Frédéric Gosselin

Catherine Landry, Département de psychologie, Université de Montréal

Can we predict vividness from the characteristics of imagined images? A novel database featuring vividness judgments of the Natural Scene Dataset

Vision Science Society Annual Meeting (VSS) 2024, St. Pete Beach, Floride, États-Unis, du 17 au 22 mai 2024

Supervisors: Ian Charest & Frédéric Gosselin

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

Structural and genetic constraints on zebrafish brain networks

17th Canadian Neuroscience Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, du 19 au 22 mai 2024

Supervisors: Paul De Koninck & Patrick Desrosiers

Xiaoxuan Lei, Department of Physiology, McGill University

Geometry of naturalistic object representations in models of working memory

Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN 2024), Boston, États-Unis, du 6 au 9 août 2024

Supervisors: Pouya Bashivan & Pierre Bellec

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

Critical energy landscapes: The spin glass as a model of psychedelic action

Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC), Tokyo, Japon, du 2 au 5 juillet 2024

Supervisors: Karim Jerbi & Guillaume Dumas

Valérie Pineau Noël, Département de psychiatrie et de neurosciences, Université Laval

Investiguating the role of the blood-brain barrier and astrocytes in anorexia nervosa

The Short Course on the Application of Machine Learning for Automated Quantification of Behavior, Maine, États-Unis (The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor), du 13 au 18 octobre 2024

Supervisor: Caroline Menard

Motahareh Pourrahimi, Integrated Program of Neuroscience, McGill University

Human-like Behavior and Neural Representations Emerge in a Neural Network Trained to Search for Natural Objects

The Fifth International Convention on the Mathematics Of Neuroscience and AI, Rome, Italie, du 28 au 31 mai 2024

Supervisors: Pouya Bashivan & Irina Rish

Darius Valevicius, Département de neurosciences, Université de Montréal

Evolving synthetic images for the control of affective experience

Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN 2024), Boston, États-Unis, du 6 au 9 août 2024

Supervisor: Vincent Taschereau-Dumouchel

Charlotte Volk, Department of Bioengineering, McGill University

Easing into learning: How and why a sequential curriculum improves visual learning generalization

Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN 2024), Boston, États-Unis, du 6 au 9 août 2024

Supervisors: Shahab Bakhtiari & Christopher Pack

Michelle Wang, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University

Nipoppy: a framework for the organization and decentralized processing of neuroimaging-clinical data

Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) 2024 Annual Meeting, Séoul, Korea, du 23 au 27 juin 2024

Supervisor: Jean-Baptiste Poline

Winter 2024 Competition

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

Neural Representations of face recognition in biological and artificial systems: Insights from MEG and CNNs

Computational and Systems Neuroscience — COSYNE 2024, Lisbonne et Cascais, Portugal, du 29 février au 5 mars 2024

Supervisors: Karim Jerbi & Shahab Bakhtiari

Pierre-Louis Benveniste, Génie biomédical, Polytechnique Montréal

Automatic segmentation of spinal cord multiple sclerosis lesions on MRI images across multiple sites, contrasts and vendors

International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), Singapour, Singapour, du 4 au 9 mai 2024

Supervisors: Julien Cohen-Adad & Hervé Lombaert

Chiara Bramati, Département de neurosciences, Université de Montréal

Emergence of differential learning strategies in mice with a human-specific modifier of cortical pyramidal neuron function

PLENA 2024 Pucón Learning and AI Summit, Pucón, Chili, du 8 au 12 avril 2024

Supervisor: Roberto Araya

Busra Tugce Gurbuz, Quantitative Life Sciences, McGill University

Foraging for insights: A functional model investigating memory mechanisms for continual learning

Pucón Learning and AI Summit, Pucón, Chili, du 8 au 12 avril 2024

Supervisors: Christopher Pack & Eilif Muller

Nanda Harishankar Krishna, Département d’informatique et de recherche opérationnelle (DIRO), Université de Montréal

Sufficient conditions for offline reactivation in recurrent neural networks

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

Supervisor: Guillaume Lajoie

Katarzyna Jurewicz, Department of Physiology, McGill University

Information transfer during goal-directed viewing of everyday scenes

24th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, Floride, États-Unis, du 17 au 22 mai 2024

Supervisors: Suresh Krishna & Irina Rish

Diana Mitchell, Neurosciences, Université de Montréal

Altered input/output properties of layer 5 pyramidal neurons in a mouse model of Fragile X Syndrome

Pucón Learning and AI Summit (PLENA), Pucón, Chili, du 8 au 12 avril 2024

Supervisor: Roberto Araya

Roman Pogodin, Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University

Synaptic Weight Distributions Depend on the Geometry of Plasticity

ICLR 2024, Vienne, Autriche, du 17 au 22 mai 2024

Supervisors: Blake Richards & Guillaume Lajoie

Jan Valosek, NeuroPoly, Genie biomédical, Polytechnique Montréal

Automatic segmentation of T2-weighted hyperintense lesions in spinal cord injury

International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), Singapour, Singapour, du 4 au 9 mai 2024

Supervisor: Julien Cohen-Adad

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

Supervisors: Christian Gagné & Flavie Lavoie-Cardinal

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

Formalizing locality for normative synaptic plasticity models

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

Supervisors: Guillaume Lajoie & Blake Richards

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

Supervisor: Benjamin De Leener

Frans Irgolitsch, Génie Biomédical, 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

Supervisors: 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

Supervisors: Bratislav Misic & Danilo Bzdok

Summer 2023 Competition

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

Supervisor: Julien Cohen-Adad

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

Supervisor: 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

Supervisors:  Stefanie Blain-Moraes & Karim Jerbi

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

Supervisor: 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

Supervisor: Guillaume Dumas

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

(Subvention déclinée par le lauréat)

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

(Subvention déclinée par le lauréat)

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

(Subvention déclinée par le lauréat)

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

(Subvention déclinée par le lauréat) 

 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