Danilo Bzdok, MD, PhD

Dr. Bzdok is a medical doctor and computer scientist with a dual background in systems neuroscience and machine learning algorithms. He currently serves as Associate Professor at McGill's Faculty of Medicine and as Canada CIFAR AI Chair at Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, including cross-appointments at the McConnell Brain Imaging Center, Montreal Neurological Institute, Ludmer Centre for Neuroinformatics and Mental Health, and the School of Computer Science at McGill University. Dr. Bzdok's interdisciplinary research activity centers on narrowing knowledge gaps in the brain basis of human-defining types of thinking, with a special focus on the higher association cortex in health and disease.

After completing his medical training at RWTH Aachen University, Université de Lausanne, and Harvard Medical School, Dr. Bzdok completed one PhD in cognitive neuroscience at Research Center Juelich and one PhD in computer science in machine learning statistics at INRIA Saclay and Neurospin.