2025 Frontiers in Science: Intelligence

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2025 Frontiers in Science
Intelligence: From AI to the Brain — and Back

Hosted by the College of Sciences at Georgia Tech
April 3, 2025 | The Historic Academy of Medicine at Georgia Tech
 
 
 

About the conference

This year’s Frontiers in Science conference will showcase cutting-edge research at the intersection of artificial intelligence and the cognitive sciences — highlighting how AI is transforming our understanding of the brain, and how neuroscience and psychology are informing new developments in AI. Read about 2024 Frontiers.

Parking and Directions

  • 🚎 Free campus transportation is available through the Stinger Shuttle Gold Route.
    • 🏛️ The building front entrance is located at:
      875 W Peachtree Street NW, Atlanta, GA 30309
  • 🚙 Parking at the Academy of Medicine is available for a $5 fee. 
    • The surface parking lot is located at:
      155 7th St NE, Atlanta, GA 30308
    • Access the E84 parking lot by turning right onto 7th Street NW off Peachtree Street NW
    • The parking lot will be the first right (behind the Historic Academy of Medicine)
  • Additional paid parking is available on the Centergy Parking Deck at 815 Williams Street NW

Event Schedule

8:30 - 9:10am
Welcome
8:30 - 9:00am Coffee and Check-In
Coffee and pastries will be served.
9:00 - 9:10am Opening Remarks
  • Susan Lozier, Dean of the College of Sciences, Betsy Middleton and John Clark Sutherland Chair, Professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
9:10 - 11:10am
Cognitive Science & AI: Decoding Thought Processes
9:10 - 9:30am Introduction
  • Robert Wilson, Associate Professor in the School of Psychology
9:30 - 10:20am Keynote | Memory, Planning, and Reasoning in Brains and AI
  • Ida Momennejad, Principal Researcher in Reinforcement Learning at Microsoft
10:20 - 11:10am Panel | Advancing Cognitive Science with AI
  • Dobromir Rahnev, Associate Chair of Research and Blanchard Early Career Professor in the School of Psychology 
  • Sashank Varma, Professor in the School of Psychology
  • Anna (Anya) Ivanova, Assistant Professor in the School of Psychology 
  • Christopher Rozell, Julian T. Hightower Chair and Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
11:10 - 11:25am
Coffee Break

Light refreshments will be served.
11:25 - 12:30pm
Neuroscience & AI: A New Era of Brain Research
11:25 - 12:15pm Panel | Advancing Neuroscience with AI
  • Farzaneh Najafi, Assistant Professor in the School of Biological Sciences
  • Audrey Sederberg, Assistant Professor in the Schools of Psychology and Physics
  • Anqi Wu, Assistant Professor at the School of Computational Science and Engineering
  • Wenjing Liao, Associate Professor in the School of Mathematics
12:15 - 12:30pm Poster Spotlight
Highlights from student and post-doctoral research posters will be shared.


 
12:30 - 2:00pm
Networking Lunch and Poster Session

Food and beverages will be served.
2:00 - 4:30pm
Pioneering the Future
2:00 - 2:10pm Afternoon Opening Remarks | AI at Georgia Tech
  • Tim Lieuwen, Executive Vice President for Research, Regents’ Professor, David S. Lewis, Jr. Chair in the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering​​​​​
2:10 - 2:40pm Keynote | Brains Matter for Artificial Intelligence
  • Hal Greenwald, Program Officer: Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience, Air Force Office of Scientific Research
2:40 - 2:55pm
Coffee Break

Light refreshments will be served.
2:55 - 3:45pm Panel | Advancing AI with Cognitive Science and Neuroscience
  • Hannah Choi, Assistant Professor in the School of Mathematics
  • Tansu Celikel, Professor and Chair in the School of Psychology
  • Nabil Imam, Assistant Professor in the School of Computational Science and Engineering
  • Ratan Murty, Assistant Professor in the School of Psychology
3:45 - 4:30pm Panel | Our Future... with AI
  • Anna (Anya) Ivanova, Assistant Professor in the School of Psychology
  • Hannah Choi, Assistant Professor in the School of Mathematics
  • Ida Momennejad, Principal Researcher in Reinforcement Learning at Microsoft
  • Robert Wilson, Associate Professor in the School of Psychology
  • Moderated by Dobromir Rahnev, Associate Chair of Research and Blanchard Early Career Professor in the School of Psychology 
4:30 - 5:30pm
Networking Reception

Food and beverages will be served.