Mind Brain Lecture
2025 GUEST SPEAKER
"A Neuroscientist's Guide to Artificial Intelligence"
Monday, March 31st, 4 pm
Staller Center Main Stage
Livestreamed at stonybrook.edu/live
Anthony Zador, MD, PhD, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Dr. Anthony Zador works at the intersection of neuroscience and artificial intelligence. He is the Alle Davis Harris Professor of Biology at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, where he served as Chair of Neuroscience. He was named one of Foreign Policy's 100 Leading Global Thinkers and is a recipient of the Brain Research Foundation Fellowship, the Gill Symposium Transformative Investigator Award, and the Allen Distinguished Investigator Award.
Over the past decade, AI has made stunning advances, from mastering language to solving the structure of proteins. These breakthroughs arise from over forty years of work in neural networks, where ideas from neuroscience have inspired solutions in AI. In this lecture, Dr. Zador will explore how reverse engineering the brain's computations has driven progress in both fields, and how this back-and-forth between neuroscience and AI is set to grow even stronger—with brain-inspired designs driving new AI advances while AI tools transform our understanding of how the brain works.