Keynote Lecture: Alona Fyshe

Alona Fyshe, University of Alberta
Associate Professor of Computing Science and Psychology

Alona Fyshe is an Associate Professor with a joint appointment in the Computing Science and Psychology Departments at the University of Alberta.  She is a fellow at the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) and holds a Canada CIFAR AI Chair.  Alona received her BSc and MSc in Computing Science from the University of Alberta, and a PhD in Machine Learning from Carnegie Mellon University.

Alona uses machine learning to analyze brain images collected while people read text or view images, which allows her to study how the human brain represents meaning.  Alona also studies how computer models learn to represent meaning when trained on text or images.  Alona leverages the connections between computer representations of meaning and those found in the human brain in order to advance our understanding of the brain, and the state of the art in machine learning.