Eva Dyer.

Eva Dyer

Associate professor of biomedical engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology

Eva Dyer (she/they) is associate professor of biomedical engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dyer leads the NerDS Lab, which focuses on data-centric artificial intelligence (AI), representation learning and AI for science. A key area of the lab’s research focuses on AI for neuroscience, with an aim to develop tools to better understand the brain and neural computation, and to uncover abstractions of natural intelligence for creating new brain-inspired AI.

Dyer earned all of their degrees in electrical and computer engineering, including a Ph.D. and an M.S. from Rice University and a B.S. from the University of Miami. They have received numerous honors, including a Sloan Fellowship, NSF CAREER Award, McKnight Foundation Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Award and a CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar Award.

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