Aldo Faisal

Principal Investigator

Aldo Faisal is a Professor of AI & Neuroscience jointly at the Dept. of Bioengineering and the Dept. of Computing at Imperial College London, where he leads the Brain & Behaviour Lab. Aldo is also Director of the Behaviour Analytics Lab at the Data Science Institute. He is also Associate Investigator at the MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences and is affiliated faculty at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit (University College London). Aldo serves as an Associate editor for Nature Scientific Data and PLOS Computational Biology and has acted as conference chair, area chair, program chair in key conferences in the field (e.g. Neurotechnix, KDD, NIPS, IEEE BSN), in 2016 he was elected into the Global Futures Council of the World Economic Forum. Aldo received a number of awards and distinctions, including being scholar of the German National Merit Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutsche Volkes; Undergraduate PhD), a Fellow of the Böhringer-Ingelheim Foundation for Basic Biomedical Research, elected as a Junior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge (Wolfson College), and research prizes such as the Toyota Mobility Foundation award in 2018 ($50,000). Aldo's lab featured regularly across global media (such as BBC, CNN, WIRED, TED, TEDx, New Scientist, Guardian, Times of India, etc.) and Scientific American voted his research on gaze-based control as 1st of 10 most transformative ideas for 2016.