Alona Fyshe
Associate Professor — University of Alberta
Dr. Alona Fyshe is an Associate Professor with a joint appointment in the Computing Science and Psychology Departments at the University of Alberta. She is a fellow at the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) and holds a Canada CIFAR AI Chair. Dr Fyshe received her BSc and MSc in Computing Science from the University of Alberta, and a PhD in Machine Learning from Carnegie Mellon University.
Dr Fyshe uses machine learning to analyze brain images collected while people read, which allows her to study how the human brain represents meaning. Dr Fyshe has discovered unique connections between the brain’s representation of meaning and the representations of meaning found inside of large language models (LLMs). Her Ted talk “Does AI really understand us?” has been viewed nearly 1.5 million times.