Shahab BAKHTIARI

Shahab Bakhtiari is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Montreal's Faculty of Arts and Sciences. His research focuses on NeuroAI, exploring the intersection of neuroscience and artificial intelligence, particularly in visual perception and learning mechanisms in biological systems and artificial neural networks. He holds a PhD in Neuroscience from McGill University and conducted postdoctoral research at Mila, Quebec AI Institute.

• Education:
  • Bachelor's and Master's in Electrical Engineering, University of Tehran
  • PhD in Neuroscience, McGill University

His research interests include computational neuroscience, machine learning, visual system modeling, and energy-efficient predictive coding. He teaches courses on AI, cognitive neuroscience, and deep learning applications in psychology.

Key grants include a CRSNG grant (2023–2029) for comparative visual system studies and the UNIQUE strategic initiative (2022–2029), co-led by 50+ researchers. He has supervised one Master's student, Hamza Abdelhedi, on AI-human face recognition comparisons.

His work bridges AI and biological systems, leveraging neuroimaging and deep learning to model brain dynamics and improve AI's biological plausibility.