Sabine and Matteo presents at Cosyne 2026

Ko presents at MBCT Symposium at Stanford

Link

Soroush successfully defends his MSc thesis with distinction

Ko joins a team from Brain Canada to brief the Parliament at Ottawa on urgency to harness AI for Neuroscience

ViTA Lab’s 3rd successful lab retreat!

Scott joins the ViTA Lab as a MSc student

Marcus Wong and Stephanie Habach receive a SURFiN fellowship to join the lab.

Ko re-unites with folks at MBL Woodshole MA for another round of BMM

Sabine starts as a postdoc with Connected Minds Postdoctoral fellowship

Ko co-organizes a symposium at JNS 2025

Maren starts as a postdoc with Connected Minds Postdoctoral fellowship

Successful participation at the CIAN-CVR conference at York

Umael wins best talk at CAPnet

The lab successfully participates in VSS 2026 with many talks and travel aards!

The lab receives Ontario ERA

Maren, Sabine, Matteo and I participated in NETI 2025 at Austin, TX

Mualla and JDD presents at Cosyne 2025

Umael receives NSERC USRA to work with us in Summer 2025

Ko is invited for giving the keynote at the LOVE conference

ViTA Lab’s 2nd successful lab retreat

Sabine receives a VISTA Travel award to come visit ViTA Lab in Nov 2024-Feb 2025

Ko is invited to give a seminar at Tsinghua University, Beijing China

Anaa succesfully defends her MSc thesis with distinction

Shirin succesfully defends her MSc thesis with distinction

Ko co-organizes the Brain-Score benchmarking competition with Martin

Event video

Ezgi receives the SFN Trainee Professional Development Award

Yousif and Ram presents at CCN 2024

Yousif successfully defends his MSc thesis

Liza attends BMM 2024

Our paper on our home-cage kiosk gets accepted. 

Very successful outing at VSS 2024

ViTA Lab receives its first NSERC – DG award

Ram defends his undergrad thesis and wins best thesis award, joins med school

Liza receives NSERC CGSM to pursue an MSc in our lab

Dr. Matteo Dunnhofer will be joining the lab as a postdoctoral fellow after successfully receiving the Marie Curie Fellowship

Liza and Ram receives NSERC USRA to work with us in summer 2024

Liza and Lynn presents at Cosyne 2024

ViTA Lab at VISTA Conference 2023

Shirin, Yousif, Anaa, Hamid, Lynn, Maren, Sara, Na Yeon presents at VISTA conference.

The first ViTA Lab Scientific Retreat

JDD receives Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship to join the lab.

Participation at SFN 2023

Lynn receives TPDA award. Lynn gives a talk at the nanosymposium: The Functional Organization and Plasticity of the Ventral Stream of the Visual System. Ko gives a talk at the nanosymposium: Representation of Faces and Bodies

VISTA Travel Award

Maren receives a VISTA Travel award to come visit ViTA Lab in Dec 2023

Participation at CCN 2023

Kushin, Sara, and Ko present at CCN 2023.

Kushin gets selected for a talk

Jay and Yousif attend BMM 2023

BMM Summer School

ViTA Lab receives a Brain Canada Foundation Grant

Ko gets the 2022 Future Leaders in Canadian Brain Research award

ViTA Lab receives its 2nd VISTA Research Grant (funding from the Canada First Research Excellence Fund) for 2023-2025

The work will be done in collaboration with Dr. Ralph Adolphs(Caltech), Dr. Joel Zylberberg (YorkU) and BeMe.ai

Ko, Hamid, Sachi, Maren and Sara present at VSS

Sachi’s Talk: Video

Hamid and Sachi present at Cosyne, Ko presents in the workshop

Hamid and Sachi’s abstracts get accepted for Posters at Cosyne 2023. Our lab’s first submission and acceptance at Cosyne!

Ko chairs a SFN Nanosymposium on Object processing. Vivian and Ko also give SFN talks

Ko co-organizes a CCN 2022 Generative Adversarial Collaboration Workshop at San Francisco

Click here for video

We received a SFARI Pilot Award to develop a NHP model of atypical facial emotion recognition in autistic adults

ViTA Lab receives an unrestricted Google Research Award

This work will be done in collaboration with Dr. Simon Kornblith

ViTA Lab receives a VISTA Research Grant (funding from the Canada First Research Excellence Fund) for 2022-2024

The work will be done in collaboration with Dr. Simon Kornblith (Google Brain) and Dr. Regina Rini from York University.

Ko will lead and co-organize a CCN GAC workshop in San Francisco, August 2022

The team includes experts from the US and Canada
Click here to read more.

Anaa, Shirin, and Yousif join the Neuromatch Academy for summer 2022

Vivian, Marcelo and Ko
present three posters
(future Vita Lab work!)
at VSS 2022.

Yousif is offered admission
to the Biology program and joins the lab

Ko is offered a Canada Research Chair in Visual Neuroscience

Hamid joins the lab as a postdoc

Hamid brings with him his CIHR Postdoc Fellowship!

Shirin is offered admission
to the Biology program and joins the lab

Anaa is offered admission
to the Biology program and joins the lab