Schedule



USS 2026


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Tuesday, 12th May

Time (EDT) Session Speaker(s) Title Links
08:45 - 09:15 Arrival and Registration (coffee, tea & pastries)
09:15 - 09:30 Opening Remarks
09:30 - 10:45 Session 1 Kevin Whittingstall , Frédéric Beaupré , Sina Esmaeili Innovative Analysis in NeuroAI
09:30 - 09:55 ↳ Talk 1 Frédéric Beaupré
STED-FM: A Self-Supervised Foundation Model for Robust and Generalizable Representation Learning in STED Microscopy
09:55 - 10:20 ↳ Talk 2 Sina Esmaeili
Building the Missing Layer for Mobile Neuro-AI: Python tools for denoising, source separation, and reproducible Mobile Brain/Body Imaging (MoBI) workflows
10:20 - 10:45 ↳ Talk 3 Kevin Whittingstall
When hormones meet the brain: a vascular perspective
10:45 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00 Panel Discussion 1 Philipp Thölke , Nanda Krishna , Elkaïoum Moutuou , Frédéric Beaupré Neuro foundation models
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 14:15 Session 2 Nicolas Doyon , Hafez Ghaemi , Darius Valevicius Computational approaches to the mind
13:00 - 13:25 ↳ Talk 1 Hafez Ghaemi
Self-supervised learning with teacher-guided masking
13:25 - 13:50 ↳ Talk 2 Darius Valevicius
Synthetic image evolution for affective neuroscience
13:50 - 14:15 ↳ Talk 3 Nicolas Doyon
How dynamics of ionic concentration shape information processing in neural networks
14:15 - 14:30 Break
14:30 - 16:00 Workshop 1 Baptiste Bonin , Julien Armand
Introduction to Reinforcement Learning
Colab
16:00 - 17:30 Poster session Selected posters presented by participants
17:30 - 19:00 Neuro-AI Networking event

Wednesday, 13th May

Time (EDT) Session Speaker(s) Title Links
08:45 - 09:15 Coffee, tea & pastries
09:15 - 09:30 Opening Remarks
09:30 - 10:45 Session 3 Benoit Labonté , Antoine Boudreau LeBlanc , Mina Arzaghi Ethics and EDI in NeuroAI
09:30 - 09:55 ↳ Talk 1 Mina Arzaghi
Bias and Fairness in Large Language Models
09:55 - 10:20 ↳ Talk 2 Antoine Boudreau LeBlanc
From the Ethics of Governance to Sociotechnical Assemblages in NeuroAI
10:20 - 10:45 ↳ Talk 3 Benoit Labonté
Sex Differences in Depression - Ethical and EDI Considerations
10:45 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00 Panel Discussion 2 Taylor Webb , Raymond Chua , Bruno Morency Neuro-AI in industry and entrepreneurship
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 14:15 Session 4 Pingsheng Li , Mariem Hafsia , Lune Bellec Video games + Creativity + Gamification
13:00 - 13:25 ↳ Talk 1 Mariem Hafsia
Beyond Diagnostic Labels: Behavioral Phenotyping Through Gamified Neurodevelopmental Assessment
13:25 - 13:50 ↳ Talk 2 Pingsheng Li
Aligning Human-AI Visual Learning through Virtual Reality
13:50 - 14:15 ↳ Talk 3 Lune Bellec
Modelling Individual Brains and Behaviour in Retro Games
14:15 - 14:30 Break
14:30 - 16:00 Workshop 2 Vanessa Hadid
Machine learning on electrophysiology MEG/EEG signals
GitHub
16:00 - 17:30 Closing Remarks