
Kohitij Kar
@KohitijKar
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Assistant Professor, Canada Research Chair in Visual Neuroscience, @yorkuniversity Previously: Postdoc(@MIT), PhD (@RutgersU)
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Joined September 2012
Very honoured to receive the Canada Research Chair in Visual Neuroscience. Thanks to continued funding from the CRC program for the next 5 (potentially 10) years, our lab will be doing collaborative, cutting-edge, research towards a quantifiable understanding of the visual system.
@YorkUniversity @TIPS_SPIIE @YorkUHealth @YorkUKINE @YorkULAPS @YorkUScience @YorkUPsyc @YorkUChem Congrats to Prof @KohitijKar for receiving the CRC Tier II in Visual #Neuroscience! His lab aims to use findings to develop #AI systems in hopes of coming up with treatment strategies for #mentalhealth disorders. #YUResearch
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Had a great time speaking at the AI DLDA summer school at University of Udine, meeting @MicheloniC and trainees with some great science discussions and food 🍝 and wine 🍷 . Bonus — Leaning tower of Pisa!
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RT @mdunnhofer: In the past weeks we have been around NETI at @UTAustin, @VSSMtg 2025, and the @CentreforVisio1 @YorkU_CIAN conf., to discu….
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Great scientifically stimulating couple of days at YorkU @YorkU_CIAN @CentreforVisio1 — hearing from some of my scientific heroes — @JamesJDiCarlo @BehrmannCo50278 @kalatwt @JoshHMcDermott and others. Still to come @andpru and @DMWolpert !!
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Our lab had a great time sharing our work at the NETI Workshop at @UTAustin . Lots of new, exciting work is going on in systems neuroscience!
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This year my lab is hosting undergraduates for the SURFiN program. If you want to come over to @YorkUniversity @YorkU_CIAN @CentreforVisio1 in Toronto and work on a @SFARIorg funded project on using brain-inspired AI for autism research please apply!.
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This was such a great opportunity for us and the trainees! #cianYorkU.
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If you are at @CosyneMeeting #COSYNE2025, please check out two posters from our lab today at 1:15 pm, one by Mualla (2-62), and the other by Jean de Dieu (2-127).
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RT @HamidRamezanpou: 1/4 Excited to share our latest paper, led by Ghazal Darmani, published in @NatureComms. It was a privilege to work wi….
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Nature Communications - Transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS) is a non-invasive method to modulate deep brain activity. Using direct recordings from implanted electrodes, we showed that TUS...
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Our CCN 2022 GAC write up is finally out!. (Hoping it’s a good read for all the trainees and colleagues!). @GretaTuckute @dfinz @eshedmargalit @jcbyts @alonamarie @s_y_chung @ev_fedorenko @KriegeskorteLab @kalatwt.
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By Greta Tuckute, Dawn Finzi & 9 more. Neuroscience has made significant progress building large-scale artificial neural network models of brain activity and behavior. This article explores opinions...
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RT @PaulunVivian: My friends Sara and Guido are facing a devastating brain cancer diagnosis. To help cover the costs of experimental treatm….
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Dear Family and Friends, Old and New, We are the family of Sara Joy Hawkins, and this… Guido Maiello needs your support for Sara's Brain Cancer Treatments
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🌟New preprint with @LynnKASorensen and @JamesJDiCarlo. When animals learn new object discrimination tasks, how much does their IT cortex change? In their untrained state, animals can still see objects but can’t attach labels—so we don’t expect the ventral stream to fully
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It's been a very nice visit so far at the IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research at @Tsinghua_Uni, Beijing, invited by @xiaoxuan_jia. The people, research and the campus are all really awesome here!
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It was absolutely fantastic to host Robert Geirhos for our monthly seminar series @YorkU_CIAN !
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RT @tserre: I am looking for a postdoc to join our group via our training grant in computational psychiatry. Please DM me if you are intere….
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Funds from the Training Program in Computational Psychiatry (TPCP) supports the training of recent postdoctoral scientists with strong backgrounds in fields such as brain science, engineering,...
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