Professor Aldo Faisal - CHIMERA monthly seminar series

Professor Aldo Faisal is the Professor of AI & Neuroscience at the Dept. of Computing and the Dept. of Bioengineering at Imperial College London. He holds the UKRI Turing AI Acceleration Fellowship. Aldo is Director of the £20Mio. UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in AI for Healthcare. He is the Elected Speaker of the Cross-Faculty Network in Artificial Intelligence representing AI in College on behalf of over 200 academic members.

At his two departments, Aldo leads the Brain & Behaviour Lab focussing on AI & Neuroscience and the Behaviour Analytics Lab at the Data Science Institute. He is Associate Investigator at the MRC London Institute of Medical Sciencesand is affiliated faculty at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit (University College London). 

Aldo's lab featured regularly across global media (such as BBC, CNN, TED, TEDx, Wall Street Journal, Guardian, Financial Times , WIRED, Scientific American, New Scientist, etc.), e.g. in 2016 Scientific American voted his research on gaze-based control as 1st of 10 most transformative ideas of year. 

Dr Faisal's labs combine cross-disciplinary computational and experimental approaches to investigate how the brain and behaviour evolved to  learn and control goal-directed behaviour.