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Kohitij Kar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at York University. He holds the Canada Research Chair in Visual Neuroscience. Dr. Kar has a background as a Research Scientist at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, where he worked with Dr. James DiCarlo. He completed his Ph.D. in Behavioral and Neural Sciences at Rutgers University in 2015, under the guidance of Bart Krekelberg. His research focuses on the intersection of neurophysiological investigations into visual intelligence in non-human primates and the development of artificial intelligence systems. Dr. Kar's work has been published in prestigious neuroscience journals such as Science and Nature Neuroscience, as well as at competitive machine learning conferences including NeurIPS and ICLR. He has been recognized as a Simons Foundation investigator, developing a non-human primate model for autism. His sub-disciplines include primate visual intelligence, in-vivo neurophysiology, visual object recognition, and deep neural networks.
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