cognitive AI in vision

Despite notable advances in AI over the last decade, human intelligence still surpasses AI in most daily tasks. Our lab aims to

translate insights from cognitive science and neuroscience to push the frontiers of AI research.
use AI models to further our understanding of human cognition.

RESEARCH

We design and conduct psychophysics experiments that benchmark human and AI performance in vision tasks, identify research gaps, and bootstrap modern AI.
We also develop novel computational models that help evaluate working hypotheses in human vision, and thereby, advance our understanding of biological perception.

LAB CULTURE

All of us in DeepNeuroCognition Lab seek to foster a welcoming, respectful and caring lab environment, where we support a diverse group of students and trainees of all levels regardless of their race, age, colour , national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, disability, economic status and other characteristics and identities.

We value scientific integrity, teamwork, responsiblity, passion, self-motivation, open-mindedness, differences, and adapatability. If you are interested in joining our lab, we expect you to uphold to them.

DR. MENGMI ZHANG

[Nov, 2023 - present] Tenure-track Nanyang assistant professor, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore

[Sep, 2021 - present] Principal scientist and principal investigator @CFAR and I2R, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore

[Jul 1, 2022 - Dec 28, 2022] Adjunct Asst Prof @Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept, National University of Singapore

[Jun, 2019 - Sep, 2021] Post-doc, Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School

(also affiliated with MIT-Harvard Center for Brains, Minds and Machines, USA)

[Aug, 2015 - Jan, 2019] Ph.D., National University of Singapore

(exchange at KreimanLab @ Harvard Medical School, USA)

[Aug, 2011 - Jul, 2015] B.Eng, National University of Singapore

(exchange at University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)

NEWS (the latest 3 months only)

[Apr, 2024] Prof. Suresh Krishna gave a talk on active vision in our lab!

[Apr, 2024] I serve as Area Chair for NeurIPS 2024!

[Apr, 2024] Our workshop on human-inspired computer vision was accepted in ECCV!

[Mar, 2024] I serve in the organization committee in Asia Pacific Conference on Vision (APCV)!

[NOV, 2023] The work in collaboration with KreimanLab, Harvard, was accepted in TNNLS journal!

[NOV, 2023] Congratulations to AURELIA who was awarded Silver Award at Research Fair in Victoria JC!

[OCT, 2023] I served as Area Chair for ICLR 2024!

MANY THANKS

Our students, postdocs, research engineers and research scientists are the lifeblood of the lab! Thank you for your hard work and dedication to research!