Dora Angelaki, Ph.D.

Dora Angelaki is professor at the Center for Neural Science and the Tandon School of Engineering at New York University. She holds a diploma and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and biomedical engineering from the National Technical University of Athens and the University of Minnesota. Interested in understanding the principles that make our brain so much better than man-made machines and AI, she uses naturalistic foraging tasks that combine uncertainty, spatial navigation, decision-making and episodic memory to understand inference in the brain. She explores how task-relevant latent variables and multisensory signals flow dynamically across brain areas to generate perception and cognition, how hierarchical causal inference is implemented in the brain, how beliefs propagate through the network, and how internal states modulate this information flow.