Ecem Özkan: post-doctoral researcher and our favourite interpreter to/from any equation and programming language

I am a postdoctoral researcher in artificial intelligence applied to animal cognition at the Prepared Minds Lab. My academic background is interdisciplinary, and I focus on applying biological priors in perception and cognition to artificial neural networks. For my PhD (Electronics Engineering and Computer Science at QMUL), I have worked on computationally modelling human non-verbal behaviour in natural dialogue. Making connections between multiple fields and ideas is definitely a welcomed challenge for me – and an amazing aspect of our lab in my opinion!

Connecting the dots between models and hypotheses relating to priors and learning in humans, baby chicks and AI? Stay tuned! 

Email: e.ozkan@qmul.ac.uk

Twitter: @ecozka