Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Japan
Lana Sinapayen received a Ph.D in multi-disciplinary sciences from the University of Tokyo, Japan, in 2018. She has been an Associate Researcher at Sony CSL in Tokyo since 2018, and co-founded the CSL Kyoto lab. In 2019 she was also a Researcher at the Earth-Life Science Institute in Tokyo, and a Rutherford Fellow at the University of Sussex. The same year she became the Research Chair of the International Society for Artificial Life. In 2020 she became an eLife Open Science Leader and an Associate Editor for the Journal of Artificial Life.
Lana’s research interests include Predictive Coding, biological and artificial Neural Networks, Open Ended Evolution, and visual perception in humans and artificial systems. She is also involved in Science Communication and Open Science projects.
National Institute of Basic Biology, Japan
Eiji Watanabe received a Ph.D in engineering science from Osaka University, Japan, in 1991. He became an assistant professor at NIBB in Okazaki in 1995 and has been an associate professor there since 1998, and has held an adjunct appointment as an associate professor at the Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI in Hayama since 1998. In addition, he held an adjunct appointment as a research fellow at the Japan Science and Technology Agency in Tokyo from 2002 to 2006.
Eiji’s research interests include Predictive Coding, biological and artificial Neural Networks, and visual perception in animals, humans and artificial systems.
School of Media at the University of Quebec in Montreal
Sofian Audry is an artist, scholar, Professor of Interactive Media within the School of Media at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM). Their work is inspired from artificial intelligence, artificial life, biology and cognitive sciences. Their computational artistic practice branches through multiple media including robotics, interactive installations, immersive environments, physical computing interventions, internet art, and electronic literature.