Prof. Gustavo Deco
Professor Gustavo Deco (ICREA; Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) leads the Computational and Theoretical Neuroscience Group at the Center for Brain and Cognition. Gustavo has pioneered whole-brain computational modeling, providing a causal understanding of how distributed brain networks generate cognition, health and disease, and states like anesthesia, psychedelics, and meditation. In 1987 he received his PhD […]
Dr. Shamil Chandaria
Dr. Shamil Chandaria is a philanthropist, serial entrepreneur, technologist, and academic with multidisciplinary research interests spanning computational neuroscience, machine learning and artificial intelligence, and the philosophy and science of human wellbeing. His Ph.D. from the London School of Economics was in mathematical modeling of economic systems using stochastic differential equations and optimal control theory. Later […]
Surya Cillo
Surya is a meditation teacher, tech entrepreneur and donor of the Flourishing Intelligence Program. As a meditation teacher, Surya is one of the last few voices of multiple ancient contemplative traditions from the Himalaya, in which he was born and practiced from an early age. As tech entrepreneurs, Surya and his brothers founded multiple companies […]