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CIFAR fellows, scholars, and advisors advance knowledge across disciplines.

Researchers are invited to participate in CIFAR programs for their excellence in research and communication, as well as for how their expertise fits into the goals of a program.

Preeminent scholars in their field are selected for their professional reputation and their capacity to provide guidance and advice to CIFAR and their research programs. Each program has approximately 6-8 advisors working as a committee.

An outstanding researcher who is internationally recognized for conducting innovative studies that lead to high-impact advances in their fields. A fellow joins a program at the invitation of the program co-directors and advisors to provide research expertise to the program’s themes and goals. They receive annual unrestricted research support.

Outstanding, internationally recognized researchers who join a program at the invitation of the program co-directors and advisors to provide research expertise to the program’s themes and goals.

 

A fellow who has a strong vision for the program and the ability to motivate and lead a multidisciplinary group of scholars to make progress toward the program’s transformative knowledge creation may be invited to serve as a program co-director.

Co-directors have demonstrated intellectual leadership and a willingness and openness to extend dialogue across traditional disciplinary boundaries. In some instances, a program may choose to appoint an associate director as a leadership opportunity for emerging scholars.

Outstanding early-career researchers, recognized as rising stars in their field for their potential as future research leaders. Representing a wide range of disciplines and countries, they are selected to participate for two years in one of CIFAR’s research programs and receive unrestricted research support.

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  • Gordon “Oz” Osinski
  • Vidya Madhavan
  • Lillian Fritz-Laylin
  • Tim James
  • Sahba Nomvula Besharati
  • Michael Cohen
  • Adeel Razi
  • Jacqueline Goordial
  • Timothy Goudge
  • Jihua Hao
  • Iuliana V. Ene
  • Daniel Aldana Cohen
  • Ameet Morjaria
  • David Y. Yang
  • Aleeza Gerstein
  • Rebecca Shapiro
  • Baobao Zhang
  • Ellora Derenoncourt
  • Michael Muthukrishna
  • Yang-Yang Zhou
  • Juna A. Kollmeier
  • Richard Zemel
  • Liad Mudrik
  • Brad Ramshaw
  • Alannah Hallas
  • Kwabena Bediako
  • Alexei Ourjoumtsev
  • Christine Muschik
  • Peter McMahon
  • Andrew Saxe
  • Stefan Bauer
  • Samuel Urlacher
  • Tomás Ryan
  • Nadine Provençal
  • Allyson Mackey
  • J. Bradford DeLong
  • Aldo Geuna
  • Richard Cogdell
  • Manuel Trajtenberg
  • Suzanne Berger
  • Goldie Nejat
  • David K. Menon
  • Johnpierre Paglione
  • Melvyn Goodale
  • Jeffrey McDonnell
  • Bénédicte Ménez
  • Alona Fyshe
  • Raia Hadsell
  • Allan Macdonald
  • James Analytis
  • Roser Valentí
  • Fumio Inagaki
  • Jan Amend
  • Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
  • Frederick Cooper
  • Arturo Casadevall
  • Nathan Nunn
  • Jenny Tung
  • Walter Powell
  • John Taylor
  • Regine Kahmann
  • Ulman Lindenberger
  • Neil Gow
  • Haotian Wang
  • Iair Arcavi
  • Ximin He
  • Raffaella Margutti
  • Renée Hložek
  • Filip Van Opstal
  • Megan Peters
  • Joshua Shepherd
  • David Bacon
  • Ben Lanyon
  • Daniel Belsky
  • David S. Blehert
  • Heather Graham
  • Kendrick Smith
  • Yochai Benkler
  • David Denning
  • Elisabeth Binder
  • N. Peter Armitage
  • Keith Banting
  • Lilian Childress
  • Ayelet Shachar
  • Chelsea Finn
  • Vlada Stamenkovic
  • Ray Gosine
  • Stephen David Reicher
  • Dorit Aharonov
  • William Lazonick
  • Sarah Jane Gurr
  • Satoru Nakatsuji
  • Audrey Macklin
  • Michel Devoret
  • John Preskill
  • Kate A. Ross
  • Gerard Wright
  • Keun Lee
  • Evan Lieberman
  • Magdalena R. Osburn
  • Jane Gingrich
  • Raquel Urtasun
  • Joseph Michalski
  • Christina A. Cuomo
  • Claudia Felser
  • Emmanuel Dupoux
  • Prerna Singh
  • Andreas Wimmer
  • Stephanie Simmons
  • Daniel Ansari
  • Matthew C. Fisher
  • James Kronstad
  • Allison Harell
  • Charles M. Boone
  • Yasmeen Abu-Laban
  • David Gosset
  • Jason E. Stajich
  • Bruce Klein
  • Léon Bottou
  • Don Sheppard
  • Victoria J. Orphan
  • Eva H. Stukenbrock
  • Hazel Markus
  • Catherine Dauvergne
  • Thomas Vidick
  • Matthias Troyer
  • Irfan Siddiqi
  • Andrew Schrank
  • Kenneth Lipartito
  • Victoria Esses
  • Vijayendra Rao
  • Nigel J.T. Smith
  • Hailing Jin
  • Jay Gambetta
  • Nigel Hussey
  • Guifré Vidal
  • Jennifer McIntosh
  • Bernhard Schölkopf
  • Chris Ballentine
  • Liang Fu
  • Stacey Jeffery
  • Ami Citri
  • Takao K. Hensch
  • Dan Breznitz
  • Amos Zehavi
  • Barbara Sherwood Lollar
  • John Mustard
  • Joseph Heitman
  • Leah E. Cowen
  • Gabriela González
  • Marla B. Sokolowski
  • Victoria M. Kaspi
  • Gabriela Schlau-Cohen
  • Marzyeh Ghassemi
  • Osamu Ishitani
  • Giulio Chiribella
  • Ajith Parameswaran
  • Patrick Hayden
  • Candice Odgers
  • Joel D. Levine
  • Adrian Liu
  • Jenny Yang
  • Yaniv Ziv
  • Yogesh Surendranath
  • Maria R. Drout
  • Prineha Narang
  • Sarah Burke-Spolaor
  • Lucina Q. Uddin
  • Nancy Kanwisher
  • Alexandre Blais
  • Janet Werker
  • Sandra Waxman
  • Fraser Armstrong
  • Marc G. Bellemare
  • Joshua Folk
  • Terrence J. Sejnowski
  • Pascal Vincent
  • Doina Precup
  • Rob Fergus
  • Simon White
  • Eva Silverstein
  • Lyman Page
  • William G. Unruh
  • Frans Pretorius
  • John A. Peacock
  • Barth Netterfield
  • Mark Halpern
  • Richard S. Ellis
  • Matthew W. Choptuik
  • Lars Bildsten
  • Shaffiq Jaffer
  • Christopher J. Chang
  • Daniel Dennett
  • Sid Kouider
  • Stanislas Dehaene
  • Gilles Brassard
  • Gerhard Kirchmair
  • Aaron Courville
  • Aleksandra Vojvodic
  • Amir Yacoby
  • J. Richard Bond
  • Luyi Yang
  • Louis Taillefer
  • Leon Balents
  • Hae-Young Kee
  • Judy Cha
  • Andrea Damascelli
  • Catherine L. Drennan
  • Alán Aspuru-Guzik
  • Bruce D. Gaulin
  • Subir Sachdev
  • Will Kymlicka
  • Irene Bloemraad
  • Daryl Haggard
  • Scott D. Tremaine
  • Roger Blandford
  • Matias Zaldarriaga
  • Neil Turok
  • Ingrid Stairs
  • David Spergel
  • Joseph Silk
  • Scott Ransom
  • E. Sterl Phinney
  • Harald P. Pfeiffer
  • Ue-Li Pen
  • Julio F. Navarro
  • Robert C. Myers
  • Arthur B. McDonald
  • Luis Lehner
  • Vicky Kalogera
  • Gilbert Holder
  • Gary Hinshaw
  • Matt Dobbs
  • Mark C. Chen
  • Nir Bar-Gill
  • Raymond Laflamme
  • Aephraim M. Steinberg
  • Joel Zylberberg
  • Graham Taylor
  • Kyunghyun Cho
  • Sebastian Seung
  • Pieter Abbeel
  • Christopher K. I. Williams
  • Max Welling
  • Richard S. Sutton
  • Blake Richards
  • Joelle Pineau
  • Christopher Manning
  • Hugo Larochelle
  • Konrad Kording
  • Aapo Johannes Hyvärinen
  • Surya Ganguli
  • Nando de Freitas
  • Yann LeCun
  • Yoshua Bengio
  • Jeffrey J. Warren
  • Nathaniel Gabor
  • Vivian Wing-Wah Yam
  • Rienk van Grondelle
  • Gregory Scholes
  • Thomas Mallouk
  • Sharon Hammes-Schiffer
  • Curtis P. Berlinguette
  • Katherine McAuliffe
  • Kieran O’Donnell
  • Craig Chapman
  • Brian Dias
  • Robert Zatorre
  • Gene Robinson
  • Nicholas Turk-Browne
  • Laurel Trainor
  • Catherine Tallon-Baudry
  • Anil K. Seth
  • Lisa M. Saksida
  • Isabelle Peretz
  • Aniruddh Patel
  • Jason B. Mattingley
  • Charles A. Nelson
  • Marcello Massimini
  • Sara Mostafavi
  • Rafael Malach
  • Robert Kentridge
  • Michael Meaney
  • Thomas McDade
  • Atsushi Iriki
  • Bryan Kolb
  • Michael S. Kobor
  • Daniela Kaufer
  • Anna Goldenberg
  • Megan R. Gunnar
  • Paul Frankland
  • W. Thomas Boyce
  • David Forrest Clayton
  • Axel Cleeremans
  • Tim Bayne
  • Adrian M. Owen
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About Pieter Abbeel

Pieter Abbeel

Advisor

Learning in Machines & Brains
University of California Berkeley
United States
About Yasmeen Abu-Laban

Yasmeen Abu-Laban

Fellow

Boundaries Membership & Belonging
University of Alberta
Canada
About Dorit Aharonov

Dorit Aharonov

Advisor

Quantum Information Science
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Israel
About Jan Amend

Jan Amend

Advisory Committee Chair

Earth 4D: Subsurface Science & Exploration
University of Southern California
United States
About James Analytis

James Analytis

Fellow

Quantum Materials
University of California Berkeley
United States
About Daniel Ansari

Daniel Ansari

Fellow

Child & Brain Development
Western University
Canada
About Iair Arcavi

Iair Arcavi

CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar 2019-2021

Gravity & the Extreme Universe
Tel Aviv University
Israel
About N. Peter Armitage

N. Peter Armitage

Fellow

Quantum Materials
Johns Hopkins University
United States
About Fraser Armstrong

Fraser Armstrong

Advisor

Bio-inspired Solar Energy
Oxford University
United Kingdom
About Alán Aspuru-Guzik

Alán Aspuru-Guzik

Program Co-Director
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Lebovic Fellow

Bio-inspired Solar Energy
Pan-Canadian AI Strategy
University of Toronto
Vector Institute
Canada
About David Bacon

David Bacon

Associate Fellow

Quantum Information Science
Google
United States
About Leon Balents

Leon Balents

Program Co-Director

Quantum Materials
University of California Santa Barbara
United States
About Chris Ballentine

Chris Ballentine

Fellow

Earth 4D: Subsurface Science & Exploration
University of Oxford
United Kingdom
About Keith Banting

Keith Banting

Advisor

Boundaries Membership & Belonging
Queen's University
Canada
About Nir Bar-Gill

Nir Bar-Gill

CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar 2016-2018

Quantum Information Science
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Israel
About Stefan Bauer

Stefan Bauer

CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar 2020-2022

Learning in Machines & Brains
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Sweden
About Tim Bayne

Tim Bayne

Fellow

Brain, Mind & Consciousness
Monash University
Australia
About Kwabena Bediako

Kwabena Bediako

CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar 2020-2022

Quantum Materials
University of California Berkeley
United States
About Marc G. Bellemare

Marc G. Bellemare

Associate Fellow
Canada CIFAR AI Chair

Learning in Machines & Brains
Pan-Canadian AI Strategy
Google Brain
McGill University
Mila
Canada
About Daniel Belsky

Daniel Belsky

Fellow

Child & Brain Development
Columbia University
United States
About Yoshua Bengio

Yoshua Bengio

Program Co-Director
Canada CIFAR AI Chair

Learning in Machines & Brains
Pan-Canadian AI Strategy
IVADO
Mila
Université de Montréal
Canada
About Yochai Benkler

Yochai Benkler

Fellow

Innovation, Equity, & The Future of Prosperity
Harvard University
United States
About Suzanne Berger

Suzanne Berger

Advisor

Innovation, Equity, & The Future of Prosperity
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
United States
About Curtis P. Berlinguette

Curtis P. Berlinguette

Program Co-Director

Bio-inspired Solar Energy
University of British Columbia
Canada
About Sahba Nomvula Besharati

Sahba Nomvula Besharati

CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars 2021-2023

Brain, Mind & Consciousness
University of the Witwatersrand
South Africa
About Lars Bildsten

Lars Bildsten

Associate Fellow

Gravity & the Extreme Universe
University of California Santa Barbara
United States
About Elisabeth Binder

Elisabeth Binder

Advisory Committee Chair

Child & Brain Development
Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry
Germany
About Alexandre Blais

Alexandre Blais

Fellow

Quantum Information Science
Université de Sherbrooke
Canada
About Roger Blandford

Roger Blandford

Advisor

Gravity & the Extreme Universe
Stanford University
United States
About David S. Blehert

David S. Blehert

Fellow

Fungal Kingdom: Threats & Opportunities
National Wildlife Health Center
U.S. Geological Survey
United States
About Irene Bloemraad

Irene Bloemraad

Program Co-Director

Boundaries Membership & Belonging
University of California Berkeley
United States
About J. Richard Bond

J. Richard Bond

Fellow

Gravity & the Extreme Universe
University of Toronto
Canada
About Charles M. Boone

Charles M. Boone

Fellow

Fungal Kingdom: Threats & Opportunities
Genetic Networks
University of Toronto
Canada
About Léon Bottou

Léon Bottou

Fellow

Learning in Machines & Brains
Facebook AI Research
New York University
France
About W. Thomas Boyce

W. Thomas Boyce

Advisor

Child & Brain Development
University of California San Francisco
United States
About Gilles Brassard

Gilles Brassard

Advisor

Quantum Information Science
Université de Montréal
Canada
About Dan Breznitz

Dan Breznitz

Program Director

Innovation, Equity, & The Future of Prosperity
University of Toronto
Canada
About Sarah Burke-Spolaor

Sarah Burke-Spolaor

CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar 2018-2020

Gravity & the Extreme Universe
West Virginia University
United States
About Arturo Casadevall

Arturo Casadevall

Advisory Committee Chair

Fungal Kingdom: Threats & Opportunities
Johns Hopkins University
United States
About Judy Cha

Judy Cha

CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar 2017-2019

Quantum Materials
Yale University
United States

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