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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">An update and a friendly reminder about the Workshop $B!H(B<b>Neuro for AI & AI for Neuro</b>:
<b>Towards Multi-Modal Natural Intelligence</b>$B!I(B at the <b>AAAI 2026 conference in Singapore on January 27, 2026</b>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#0070C0"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks to those who submitted their papers so far, and we are looking forward to all your submissions by
<b>October 30, 2025.</b><span style="color:#0070C0"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Updated list of confirmed speakers:<o:p></o:p></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Guozhang Chen (Peking University)<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Dmitri "Mitya" Chklovskii (Flatiron Institute, NYU)<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Elisa Donati (University of Zurich and ETHZ)<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Adrienne Fairhall (Universtiy of Washington)<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Patrick Mineault (Amaranth Foundation)<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Adeel Razi (<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">Monash University</span>)<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Martin Schrimpf (EPFL)<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Mike Zheng Shou (National University of Singapore)<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Andreas Tolias (Stanford University)<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Please see details below and at <a href="https://neuroai-multimodal-workshop.github.io/">
https://neuroai-multimodal-workshop.github.io/</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">We invite submissions of full papers or abstracts that describe new research, work in progress, or position statements on relevant topics. Original, unpublished submissions may be considered for<b> a special issue
on "Neuroscience and AI" in the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Journal of Neural Engineering</i></b>. The full paper submissions should be 8 pages maximum, excluding references, and the abstract submissions should be 2 pages maximum, excluding
references, in the AAAI two-column format.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Please submit your work by October 30, 2025 </b>at <b><a href="https://openreview.net/group?id=AAAI.org/2026/Workshop/NeuroAI"><span style="font-weight:normal">https://openreview.net/group?id=AAAI.org/2026/Workshop/NeuroAI</span></a></b>.<span style="color:#0070C0"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Organizing Committee:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">Reza Abbasi-Asl, University of California, San Francisco<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">Asim Iqbal, Tibbling Technologies / Weill Cornell Medicine<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">Sophia Sanborn, Stanford University<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">Shinya Ito, Allen Institute<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">Anton Arkhipov, Allen Institute<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">Naomi Donovan, University of California, San Francisco<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">Macarena Aloi, Allen Institute<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Description of workshop:</b> This workshop will unite researchers in artificial intelligence, computational neuroscience, and neuromorphic engineering to explore the critical two-way exchange between biology and machine learning. Our
main objective is to bridge these fields to accelerate foundational progress in multimodal natural intelligence. The $B!H(BNeuro $B"*(B AI$B!I(B theme will investigate how principles from cortical microcircuits, such as sparse coding, dendritic nonlinearities, and cell-type
diversity, can inspire novel, efficient, and robust AI architectures like transformers and graph-based models. Conversely, the $B!H(BAI $B"*(B Neuro$B!I(B theme will showcase how advanced machine-learning techniques are revolutionizing neuroscience, enabling new insights
into neural dynamics through AI-driven analysis of large-scale imaging, electrophysiological, and behavioral data. By bridging the gap between biologically grounded inductive biases for AI and scalable computational tools for neuroscience, this workshop aims
to catalyze research that unifies theory, experiment, and application.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b> </b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Topics:</b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3">Biologically inspired machine learning architectures<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3">Neuro-inspired mechanisms for efficiency (e.g., sparsity, inhibitory-excitatory balance)<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3">AI-driven analysis of large-scale neuroscience data<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3">Unsupervised representation learning and causal inference for circuit discovery<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3">Gradient descent-based training of bio-realistic neural models<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3">Open-source software and reproducible research in NeuroAI<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3">Neuromorphic engineering and hardware implementation<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b> </b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Format of Workshop:</b> This will be a one-day, in-person workshop. The format is designed to be highly interactive, featuring a series of invited talks from world-renowned experts, two panel discussions for in-depth Q&A, and spotlight
presentations for high-impact contributed papers. A central poster session will provide a forum for detailed discussion and networking. The day will conclude with a roundtable discussion to identify key community challenges and a sponsored social gathering
to foster continued collaboration.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b> </b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Attendance:</b> We welcome researchers and practitioners from academia and industry with an interest in the intersection of neuroscience and artificial intelligence. At least one author of each accepted submission must be present at
the workshop. The maximum number of attendees is to be determined by the room size and will be communicated by AAAI.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please reach out if you have any questions. We look forward to seeing you in Singapore!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Reza Abbasi-Asl, Asim Iqbal, Sophia Sanborn, Shinya Ito, Anton Arkhipov, Naomi Donovan, Macarena Aloi<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="mso-ligatures:none">Anton Arkhipov</span></b><span style="mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none">Investigator, Allen Institute<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#0432FF;mso-ligatures:none"><a href="mailto:antona@alleninstitute.org" title="mailto:antona@alleninstitute.org"><span style="color:#0432FF">antona@alleninstitute.org</span></a></span><span style="mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#0432FF;mso-ligatures:none"><a href="https://alleninstitute.org" title="https://alleninstitute.org"><span style="color:#0432FF">alleninstitute.org</span></a></span><span style="mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="color:#0432FF;mso-ligatures:none"><a href="https://portal.brain-map.org/" title="https://portal.brain-map.org/"><span style="color:#0432FF">brain-map.org</span></a></span></u><span style="mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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