Dr. Brokoslaw Laschowski is a machine learning researcher and computational neuroscientist. He is a Research Scientist and Principal Investigator at the University Health Network and an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto with appointments in Neuroscience and Mechanical Engineering. He also directs the Computational Neuroscience Lab, an interdisciplinary research lab working at the intersection of machine learning, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence.
His long-term vision is to reverse-engineer intelligence. Toward this vision, he develops computational models of learning, perception, decision-making, and control, which serve as the foundation for studying general principles of intelligence and building intelligent machines. His research spans representation learning, neural networks, deep learning, computer vision, and reinforcement learning.
This research has resulted in publications in high-impact journals and conferences, invited talks at institutions such as Microsoft Research, best paper awards, and external grant funding. His research has been featured in Forbes, BBC, and Science Magazine, and highlighted in a keynote by Jensen Huang—Founder and CEO of NVIDIA—and showcased to the President of South Korea.
In addition to research, Dr. Laschowski leads interdisciplinary teams of researchers from computer science, engineering, neuroscience, and mathematics. He serves as an Associate Editor for Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience and has organized workshops at top international conferences such as NeurIPS. He also directs the University of Toronto’s summer research program in computer science for displaced students from Ukraine, funded by the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence.
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