I am currently pursuing a PhD under the supervision of professors Guillaume Lajoie and Yoshua Bengio, where my research focuses on the development of AI models with inductive biases from consciousness and high-level human cognition.

I did research into the computational basis of human vision with my advisor, Mick Bonner. Most of my work involved using deep neural networks (DNNs) as computational models, in addition to collected and analyzing fMRI/behavioral data. Projects of mine included:

• Modeling the dynamics and representations of human scene understanding during exploration using viewpoint-invariant generative DNNs.
• Synthesizing synthetic stimuli to selectively control neural activity in different brain regions. We did this mainly by applying gradient-based optimization methods to DNN neural encoding models.
• Evaluating multiplicative feature interactions as a canonical nonlinear computation in visual cortex. We found that multiplicative interactions between DNN features produced representations that could explain significantly more neural activity than the original features.

My curriculum was broadly focused in computer software. I also took a number of machine learning courses in my final year after completing a 1-year computer vision internship at ModiFace.

I did my final year capstone project with Jonathan Rose. My team and I designed an application for human memory augmentation, where your phone could passively listen to all of the speech in your surroundings, transcribe it, and make it permanently available for future reference using Google Search-style queries. The idea was that the application would make it easy to retrieve the contents of any past conversation you've ever had. We were partially inspired by an episode of Black Mirror, but our hope was that the outcome would be a bit less dystopian.

I went to CEGEP in Quebec, which is a 2-year college program between high-school and university.

During my final project, I constructed a cloud chamber to observe cosmic solar radiation, partially replicating the experiments that first discovered antimatter and various subatomic particles.