Shahab Bakhtiari
Biography
Shahab Bakhtiari is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at Université de Montréal and an associate academic member of Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute. Bakhtiari received his undergraduate and graduate degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Tehran. He then earned a PhD in neuroscience from McGill University and was a postdoctoral researcher at Mila, where he focused on research at the intersection of neuroscience and AI. His research examines visual perception and learning in both biological brains and artificial neural networks. He uses deep learning as a computational framework to model learning and perception in the brain, and aims to leverage our understanding of the nervous system to create more biologically inspired AI.