Dr. Brokoslaw Laschowski is a computational neuroscientist. He works as a Research Scientist and Principal Investigator at the University Health Network (i.e., the largest research hospital in Canada) and as an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, with appointments in Neuroscience and Mechanical Engineering. He also serves as the Director of the Computational Neuroscience Lab, a multidisciplinary research lab that explores the intersection of machine learning, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence. The long-term vision for his research is to reverse-engineer general principles of intelligence—from neurons to circuits to algorithms to learning and cognition—and use that understanding to build thinking machines.

Toward this vision, Dr. Laschowski has established a research program focused on developing new mathematical, computational, and machine learning models to study intelligence in brains and machines. Examples include (1) deep learning models of visual information processing, (2) decoding algorithms that predict behaviour from distributed patterns of neural activity, and (3) reinforcement learning models for control and decision-making.

As a result of this research, Dr. Laschowski has published in high-impact journals and conferences, given invited talks at leading research institutions such as Microsoft Research, and received best paper awards and external grant funding. His research has been featured in Forbes, BBC, and Science Magazine, highlighted in a keynote address by Jensen Huang, Founder and CEO of NVIDIA, and showcased to the South Korean President.

In addition to research, he has extensive experience supervising students from diverse backgrounds, including computer science, engineering, neuroscience, and mathematics. He is an Associate Editor for Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience and has organized workshops at top international conferences such as NeurIPS. He also serves as the Director of the summer research program in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto for displaced students from Ukraine, funded by the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence. In summary, Dr. Laschowski is a research scientist with expertise in developing computational models to reverse-engineer intelligence and build thinking machines.