UNIQUE Center Scientific Retreat

Posters contest

Prizes will be awarded during the closing remarks on October 31 and are possible thanks to support by the IVADO program, Cerebrum and the UNIQUE Quebec Neuro-AI Research Center. 

Evaluation Criteria

• Clarity and Visual Impact - Visual quality and organization of the poster. If the presenter is present, the clarity of their speech is also taken into account /10

• Scientific Innovation - Originality, creativity, and the novel contribution of the research presented /10

• Neuro-AI Integration - Relevance and quality of the integration of approaches in neuroscience and artificial intelligence /10

Submissions were considered by the jury for the following categories

• The UNIQUE Neuro-AI award best poster award (Masters level) - 3 awards

• The UNIQUE Neuro-AI best poster award (PhD level) - 4 awards

• The UNIQUE Neuro-AI best poster award (Postdoc level) - 1 award

List of posters

MSc Level

Exploring the temporal dynamics of masked face expression recognition: Insights from CNNs and EEG [M1] 

Maryem Benslimane, Université de Montréal

Supervisor: Karim Jerbi

Automatic radiology assessment of Lumbar Degenerative Diseases [M2] 

Thomas Dagonneau, Polytechnique Montréal

Supervisor: Julien Cohen-Adad

Bidirectional Information Flow (BIF) - A Sample Efficient Hierarchical Gaussian Process for Bayesian Optimization [M3] 

Juan Guerra, Polytechnique Montréal

Supervisor: Marco Bonizzato

Persistent decision making in mice, monkeys and humans [M4] 

Veldon-James Laurie, Université de Montréal

Supervisor: Becket Ebitz

Analytical and computational approach to structure-function relationships in mesoscopic neural networks [M5] 

Arthur Légaré, Université Laval

Supervisor: Patrick Desrosiers

VISGate: ROI-Conditioned Dual-Head Encoders that Align Visual Features and Brain Responses [M6] 

Morteza Mahdiani, Université de Montréal

Supervisor: Ian Charest

Using Complexity and Machine Learning to determine the Epileptogenic Zone in Drug-Resistant Epilepsy [M7] 

Yorguin Jose Mantilla Ramos, Université de Montréal

Supervisor: Karim Jerbi

ML-Based Discovery of EEG Biomarkers in childhood epilepsy [M8] 

Syrine Matoussi, Université de Montréal

Supervisor: Karim Jerbi

Investigating the underlying capacity for consciousness through inter-brain synchronization: A pilot study [M9] 

Anaïs Rourre, Université de Montréal

Supervisor: Catherine Duclos

Shared spatial representations during pain modulation induced by hypnotic suggestions [M10] 

Dylan Sutterlin, Université de Montréal

Supervisor: Pierre Rainville

Audiovisual Multisensory Processing in Complex and Dynamic Contexts: A Behavioural Approach [M11] 

Elizaveta Sycheva, Université de Montréal

Supervisor: Shahab Bakhtiari

A biologically inspired predictive coding algorithm with multiplicative and additive feedback [M12] 

Charlotte Volk, McGill University

Supervisor: Blake Richards

PhD Level

A Self-Supervised Foundation Model for STED Microscopy: Application to Detection of Anomalous Synaptic Structures [D1] 

Frédéric Beaupré, Université Laval

Supervisor: Christian Gagné

Reducing human interactions in automated systems with machine learning [D2] 

Anthony Bilodeau, Université Laval

Supervisor: Flavie Lavoie-Cardinal

Neural activity resolved in space and time through fusion of large-scale EEG and fMRI datasets [D3]  

Peter Brotherwood, Université de Montréal

Supervisor: Ian Charest

Koopman's analytical approach to recurrent neural networks [D4] 

Benjamin Claveau, Université Laval

Supervisor: Patrick Desrosiers

Spatially- and non-spatially tuned hippocampal neurons exhibit distinct linear and non-linear representations [D5] 

Maxime Daigle, McGill University

Supervisor: Pouya Bashivan

Deep learning-based decoding of axonal microstructures under genetic modulation using EM imaging [D6] 

Nianqi Deng, McGill University

Supervisor: Anmar Khadra

mne-mobi-AI: Building the Cognitive Engine for the Next Generation of MoBI Research [D7] 

Sina Esmaeili, Université de Montréal

Supervisor: Karim Jerbi

seq-JEPA: Autoregressive Predictive Learning of Invariant-Equivariant World Models  [D8]  

Hafez Ghaemi, Université de Montréal

Supervisor: Eilif Muller

Behavioral biometrics for participant re-identification in XR [D9] 

Mariem Hafsia, Université de Montréal

Supervisor: Guillaume Dumas

Generalizable, real-time neural decoding with hybrid state-space models [D10] 

Nanda Harishankar Krishna, Université de Montréal

Supervisor: Guillaume Lajoie

Jedi: Jointly Embedded Inference of Neural Dynamics [D11] 

Anirudh Jamkhandi, Université de Montréal

Supervisor: Matthew G. Perich

Simultaneous detection and estimation in olfactory sensing [D12] 

Chen Jiang, McGill University

Supervisor: Paul Masset

Function aligns with geometry in locally connected neuronal networks [D13] 

Antoine Légaré, Université Laval

Supervisor: Paul De Koninck

Emergent brain-like representations in a goal-directed neural network model of visual search [D14] 

Motahareh Pourrahimi, McGill University

Supervisor: Pouya Bashivan

Characterizing delta oscillations during general anesthesia using hd-EEG [D15] 

Clara Roca, Université de Montréal

Supervisor: Catherine Duclos

Random Initialization Can't Catch Up [D16] 

Alexis Roger, McGill University

Supervisor: Irina Rish

Uncovering executive profiles in neurotypical children [D17] 

Myriam Sahraoui, Université de Montréal

Supervisor: Karim Jerbi

Brain-inspired Multi-horizon Reinforcement Learning [D18] 

Manoosh Samiei, McGill University

Supervisor: Doina Precup

Characterizing Myocyte enhancer factor 2 (Mef2) transcription factors in healthy adult microglia [D19] 

William Saxon, Université Laval 

Supervisor: Flavie Lavoie-Cardinal

dACC stimulation stabilizes behavior without affecting reward processing [D20] 

Rishabh Singhal, Université de Montréal

Supervisor: Becket Ebitz

Synergy-redundancy as a predictor of recovery in DoC patients? Towards a multidimensional assessment [D21] 

Joaquim Streicher, Université de Montréal

Supervisor: Catherine Duclos

Assessing Sex-Specific Nanoscopic Changes in Response to Chronic Stress [D22] 

Kamylle Thériault, Université Laval

Supervisor: Flavie Lavoie-Cardinal

The basal ganglia as a distributed reinforcement learning system computing general values [D23] 

Zijing Wu, McGill University

Supervisor: Paul Masset

Monkeys forgo reward for the chance to lapse [D24] 

Meriam Zid, Université de Montréal

Supervisor: Becket Ebitz

Postdoctoral Level

Brain-Informed Fine-Tuning of Language Models Improves Brain Generalization and Enriches Human-Like Representations [P1] 

Isil Bilgin, Université de Montréal

Supervisor: Lune Bellec

Investigating the functional role of sleep spindles through targeted memory reactivation and closed-loop auditory stimulation [P2] 

Anne Calvel, Université Concordia

Supervisor: Emily Coffey

Repeated decoding optimises neural representations and is a SIMPL approach to finding latent variables in spiking data [P3] 

Tom George, McGill University

Supervisor: Guillaume Lajoie