A. Aldo Faisal

Professor Dr Aldo Faisal (@AnalogAldo) is Professor of Artificial Intelligence & Neuroscience at Imperial College London where is lab is based (https://FaisalLab.org). He was awarded a prestigious UKRI Turing AI Fellowship and is since 2019 the Founding Director of the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in AI for Healthcare (https://ai4health.io). Aldo works at the interface of AI and Biomedical Engineering to help people in disease and health. Core to his research approach is the virtuous cycle between using data-driven/AI methods to understand, model and predict from human beahviour, neuroscientific and biomedical problems, and in turn use the scientific discoveries gained from studying these problems to drive novel Machine Learning methods. He holds honorary posts at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit (UCL, London), at the MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, or as Honorary Senior Fellow at the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neuroscience at the University of Oxford. He received a series of research prizes and distinctions such as being elected to the Global Futures Council of the World Economic Forum and winning the Toyota Mobility Foundation $50,000 Research Discovery Prize in 2018. He co-authored the Cambridge University Press textbook "Mathematics for Machine Learning" which was inspired from his experiences in pioneering courses on Machine Learning for computer science, natural sciences and engineering students long before it became popular.