Danyal Akarca

• Year

  2024

• Program

  AI in Sci

• Institution

  Imperial College London

• Field of Study

  Mathematics and computer sciences, Engineering, Other

I am an Imperial College Research Fellow (supported by Schmidt Futures) in the Intelligent Systems and Networks Group in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Imperial College London. I’m also a Visiting Scientist at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at the University of Cambridge.

My work focuses on understanding the shared underlying principles of biological and artificial cognitive systems. To do this, I use a range of techniques borrowed from diverse fields of neuroscience, network science, applied-maths and systems biology.

I’m particularly interested in how biological systems make trade-offs (that may be implementational, algorithmic and/or computational) in order to solve difficult multi-objective problems they encounter. These ideas are encompassed quite nicely within the growing filed of Neuroscience and AI (NeuroAI).