Karim Jerbi^TN/QC

Karim Jerbi is a professor in the Department of Psychology at the Université de Montréal and an associate professor at Mila, the Québec Artificial Intelligence Institute. He directs Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience Lab (CoCo Lab) at Université de Montréal.

He works at the convergence of neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science, probing the brain dynamics that underlie thought, creativity, and altered states of consciousness. To do so, he combines neuroimaging tools such as electroencephalography (EEG) and magnetoencephalography (MEG) with advanced signal processing, computational modeling, and machine learning, building bridges between the biological and the computational that push both fields forward.

His research spans meditation, hypnosis, sleep, dreaming, and psychedelic states, tracing the contours of minds at their most expansive and most vulnerable. More broadly, Jerbi is drawn to the deeper connections between the brain, intelligent machines, digital arts, and the emerging forms of intelligence that are beginning to reshape what it means to think, create, and be conscious.

Dr Jerbi holds a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience and Brain Imaging from the Pierre & Marie Curie University in Paris and a biomedical engineering degree from the University of Karlsruhe (Germany).