Brian Murphy

Brian is a computational neuroscientist who is an expert in brain-reading technology, using machine learning methods to decode cognitive states from recordings of brain activity (EEG, fMRI, MEG) and other data. His academic career included positions as assistant professor in Data Science at Queen's University Belfast, as senior researcher at Carnegie Mellon University’s Department of Machine learning, the world’s leading lab for applying machine learning to brain activity, and as post-doc at the Centre for Mind/Brain Sciences, University of Trento, Italy, one of Europe’s leading cognitive neuroscience centres. He has a Ph.D. in Cognitive Science from Trinity College Dublin and prior to academia, worked in and co-founded web startups in Germany and China. Brian is a member of the Alzheimer’s Association EEG PIA committee, and organised the MLINI series of workshops on machine learning with neuroimaging data at NeurIPS, the world’s leading machine learning conference.