Associate Professor, McGill University, Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Blake Richards is an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science and Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery at McGill University and a Core Faculty Member at Mila. Richards’ research is at the intersection of neuroscience and AI. His laboratory investigates universal principles of intelligence that apply to both natural and artificial agents. He has received several awards for his work, including the NSERC Arthur B. McDonald Fellowship in 2022, the Canadian Association for Neuroscience Young Investigator Award in 2019, and a Canada CIFAR AI Chair in 2018. Richards was a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at SickKids Hospital from 2011 to 2013. He obtained his PhD in neuroscience from the University of Oxford in 2010 and his BSc in cognitive science and AI from the University of Toronto in 2004.
Publications
2021-12
Your head is there to move you around: Goal-driven models of the primate dorsal pathway
Patrick J Mineault, Shahab Bakhtiari, Blake Aaron Richards and Christopher C Pack
From Machine Learning to Robotics: Challenges and Opportunities for Embodied Intelligence
Nicholas Roy, Ingmar Posner, Tim D. Barfoot, Philippe Beaudoin, Yoshua Bengio, Jeannette Bohg, Oliver Brock, Isabelle Depatie, Dieter Fox, Daniel E. Koditschek, Tomás Lozano-Pérez, Vikash Mansinghka, Christopher J. Pal, Blake Richards, Dorsa Sadigh, Stefan Schaal, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, Denis Thérien, Marc Toussaint and Michiel van de Panne
Promoting and Optimizing the Use of 3D-Printed Objects in Spontaneous Recognition Memory Tasks in Rodents: A Method for Improving Rigor and Reproducibility.
Mehreen Inayat, Arely Cruz-Sanchez, Hayley H. A. Thorpe, Jude A. Frie, Blake A Richards, Jibran Y. Khokhar and Maithe Arruda-Carvalho
CCN GAC Workshop: Issues with learning in biological recurrent neural networks.
Luke Y. Prince, Ellen Boven, Roy Henha Eyono, Arna Ghosh, Joe Pemberton, Franz Scherr, Claudia Clopath, Rui Ponte Costa, Wolfgang Maass, Blake A. Richards, Cristina Savin and Katharina Anna Wilmes
PNS-GAN: Conditional Generation of Peripheral Nerve Signals in the Wavelet Domain via Adversarial Networks
Olivier Tessier-Lariviere, Luke Y. Prince, Pascal Fortier-Poisson, Lorenz Wernisch, Oliver Armitage, Emil Hewage, Guillaume Lajoie and Blake A. Richards
Learning from unexpected events in the neocortical microcircuit
Colleen J. Gillon, Jason E. Pina, Jérôme A. Lecoq, Ruweida Ahmed, Yazan N. Billeh, Shiella Caldejon, Peter Groblewski, Timothy M. Henley, India Kato, Eric Lee, Jennifer Luviano, Kyla Mace, Chelsea Nayan, Thuyanh V. Nguyen, Kat North, Jed Perkins, Sam Seid, Matthew T. Valley, Ali Williford, Yoshua Bengio... (3 more)
Blake A Richards, Timothy P Lillicrap, Philippe Beaudoin, Yoshua Bengio, Rafal Bogacz, Amelia Christensen, Claudia Clopath, Rui Ponte Costa, Archy de Berker, Surya Ganguli, Colleen J Gillon, Danijar Hafner, Adam Kepecs, Nikolaus Kriegeskorte, Peter Latham, Grace W Lindsay, Kenneth D Miller, Richard Naud, Christopher C Pack, Panayiota Poirazi... (12 more)