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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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Kohitij Kar
2 years
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.
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York U Research & Innovation
2 years
@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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I am thankful to the Ontario Govt for awarding me Ontario’s early researcher award (ERA).The award supports us in advancing knowledge and building a strong team of trainees to develop future research leaders in Ontario. . Special thanks to my awesome lab!
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And that’s a wrap for our academic efforts in #vss2025. As always, @VSSMtg never disappoints! . And now … gearing up for Club Vision 🥳
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2 months
We are excited to share our latest research at #vss2025 @VSSMtg and learn about all things vision! Please come to our talks and posters. Looking forward to all your feedback!
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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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3 months
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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4 months
This was such a great opportunity for us and the trainees! #cianYorkU.
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Centre for Integrative and Applied Neuroscience
4 months
Thank you Dr. John Reynolds from @salkinstitute for a fascinating presentation. #neuroscience
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Kohitij Kar
4 months
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 @sparuniisc: Apply to our awesome PhD program! Deadline Apr 6.
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RT @YorkU_CIAN: Join us on March 7th for this month's CIAN seminar.
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7 months
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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7 months
🌟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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8 months
RT @J_D_Crawford: @RosenbaumMemory presenting her work on hippocampus and memory for @YorkU_CIAN.
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9 months
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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9 months
It was absolutely fantastic to host Robert Geirhos for our monthly seminar series @YorkU_CIAN !
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11 months
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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