Gemma Roig

Gemma Roig is a Professor of Brain-inspired Artificial Intelligence at the Computer Science Department of Goethe University Frankfurt since 2020. She holds an honorary research affiliate position at MIT's Center for Brains Minds and Machines and is a member of hessian.ai. Her research focuses on computational models of human vision and their application to AI systems. Previously, she served as an Assistant Professor at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) and conducted postdoctoral research at MIT, exploring connections between AI and neuroscience.

Education: BEng and MSc in Telecommunication Engineering from Ramon Llull University (Barcelona), PhD in Computer Vision from ETH Zurich, and extensive postdoctoral training at MIT and EPFL. Career highlights include establishing a research group in Singapore and securing a tenure position in Frankfurt after relocating for family reasons.

Research interests span computational vision, neural networks, and the intersection of AI with human cognition. She leads the CVAI lab, developing tools like Net2Brain to bridge artificial and biological neural systems. Her work emphasizes ethical AI, explainability, and multimodal learning.

Labs/Teams: Director of the CVAI lab; collaborator with MIT's CBMM and Ernst Strüngmann Institute. Active in interdisciplinary projects like the Algonauts Challenge. Supervises 10+ PhD students and postdocs in topics ranging from neuro-symbolic AI to molecular dynamics simulations.

Grants & Funding: Supported by DFG, ERC, and DAAD scholarships. Net2Brain receives funding from German Research Foundation (DFG) and European Research Council (ERC).