Chris Eliasmith
Professor
Dept of Philosophy
Dept of Systems Design Engineering
Canada Research Chair in Theoretical Neuroscience

Director, Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience

celiasmith@uwaterloo.ca

I'm jointly appointed in Philosophy and Systems Design Engineering, and cross-appointed to Computer Science. I have supervised students in each of these departments as well as Biology and Psychology.

Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience (CTN) 
I'm currently the director of this Centre. The Centre is a focal point for researchers across faculties (math, engineering, arts, science) interested in computational and theoretical models of neural systems.

The Computational Neuroscience Research Group (CNRG)  is the research lab associated with the CTN.  I'm head of the lab, and that site contains the most up-to-date information on our research.

My forthcoming book is called 'How to build a brain' (Oxford University Press, preorder at Amazon). Work described here has been widely covered in the popular press.

My previous book on Neural Engineering describes the modeling framework we use.

Nengo is a freely available simulation package that implements the Neural Engineering Framework.

Here are some courses at the University of Waterloo related to this research.

Curriculum Vitae
Standard academic style CV, with linked publications.

Students
A list of undergraduate, masters, and PhD students I have supervised, their research projects, degrees and awards.

Academic Interests
Brief descriptions of my general interests.

Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind
The online dictionary that I founded. It receives about 100K hits per year.

Courses
F12: Phil 145 : Critical Thinking

W13: Syde 556/750: Simulating Neurobiological Systems

Prior terms: 
Phil/Psych 256 : Intro to Cognitive Science.
Phil 255: Philosophy of Mind
Phil 471/673: Naturalizing meaning

Last update: Nov. 2012