Scott C. Lowe

Current position: Distinguished Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Vector Institute, Toronto, Canada, where I am advised by Prof. Graham Taylor (University of Guelph), and Prof. Sageev Oore (Dalhousie University). Additionally, I am chief scientific consultant at NovaResp.

From 2018 to 2022, I was a Postdoc at Vector Institute and Dalhousie University, advised by both Prof. Sageev Oore and Prof. Thomas Trappenberg. In 2017, I completed my PhD in Neuroinformatics at the Doctoral Training Centre in Computational Neuroscience and Neuroinformatics, Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation, University of Edinburgh, advised by Prof. Mark van Rossum and Prof. Stefano Panzeri. My undergraduate studies were in Mathematics and Physics at Durham University.

My current research focus:

• multimodal self-supervised learning and world modelling
• reasoning in large-language models
• neuroscience inspired deep learning architectures
• real-time models for interactive generation and on-the-fly forecasting
• using AI for science and the benefit of humanity
• mitigation of existential AI safety risks

For more details about my qualifications and experience, read my curriculum vitae and check out my publication list here or on Google Scholar.