Guillaume Dumas
Appointment
CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar 2023-2025
Brain, Mind & Consciousness
About
Guillaume Dumas focuses on exploring social interaction and cognition in humans, machines, and hybrid systems. His interdisciplinary research integrates concepts and methods from computational biology, cognitive neuroscience, and artificial intelligence.
Together with his team, Dumas combines empirical and computational techniques to investigate natural and artificial brains, delving deeply into sociality, intelligence, and their links to consciousness. They leverage state-of-the-art technologies such as multi-brain recording (hyperscanning), mixed reality, or deep learning to address theoretical, translational, and applied issues. Located within a mother-infant hospital, Dumas’ laboratory prioritizes developmental, transcultural, and multiscale perspectives in examining the emergence of complex cognitive abilities and conscious functions. His work challenges traditional individualistic and normative views of cognition, shifting focus towards social brains, interacting minds, and the abundant variety of conscious experiences.
Awards
- Professorial Chair for Computational Psychiatry, IVADO, 2020
- Research Scholars in "AI and Digital Health", FRQS, 2020
- Young investigator award, Sage Bionetworks, 2015
- Nominee, MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35, 2014
Relevant Publications
- Dumas, G. (2022). From inter‐brain connectivity to inter‐personal psychiatry. World Psychiatry, 10.1002/wps.20987
- Dumas, G. (2011). Towards a two-body neuroscience. Communicative & integrative biology, 10.4161/cib.4.3.15110
- Dumas, G., Nadel, J., Soussignan, R., Martinerie, J., & Garnero, L. (2010). Inter-brain synchronization during social interaction. PloS one, 10.1371/journal.pone.0012166