Portrait of Danilo Bzdok

Danilo Bzdok

Core Academic Member
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Associate Professor, McGill University, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research Topics
Computational Biology
Deep Learning
Large Language Models (LLM)
Natural Language Processing

Biography

Danilo Bzdok is a computer scientist and medical doctor by training with a unique dual background in systems neuroscience and machine learning algorithms. After training at RWTH Aachen University (Germany), Université de Lausanne (Switzerland) and Harvard Medical School, Bzdok completed two doctoral degrees, one in neuroscience at Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany, and another in computer science (machine learning statistics) at INRIA–Saclay and the Neurospin brain imaging centre in Paris.

Danilo is currently an associate professor at McGill University’s Faculty of Medicine and a Canada CIFAR AI Chair at Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute. His interdisciplinary research centres around narrowing knowledge gaps in the brain basis of human-defining types of thinking in order to uncover key computational design principles underlying human intelligence.

Current Students

PhD - McGill University
PhD - McGill University
PhD - McGill University
Collaborating researcher - CentraleSupélec
PhD - McGill University
Collaborating researcher - École Polytechnique Montréal Paris
PhD - McGill University
Postdoctorate - McGill University
Master's Research - McGill University
Independent visiting researcher - McGill University
PhD - McGill University
PhD - McGill University
PhD - McGill University
PhD - McGill University
Collaborating researcher - Aix-Marseille Université
PhD - McGill University
PhD - McGill University

Publications

Myeloarchitecture gradients in the human insula: Histological underpinnings and association to intrinsic functional connectivity
Jessica Royer
Casey Paquola
Sara Larivière
Reinder Vos de Wael
Shahin Tavakol
Alexander J. Lowe
Oualid Benkarim
Alan C. Evans
Jonathan Smallwood
Birgit Frauscher
Boris C. Bernhardt
Patterns of autism symptoms: hidden structure in the ADOS and ADI-R instruments
Jeremy Lefort-Besnard
Kai Vogeley
Leonhard Schilbach
Bertrand Thirion