Alona Fyshe is associate professor of computing science and psychology at the University of Alberta, a fellow at the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute and a Canada CIFAR AI Chair. She uses machine learning to analyze brain images collected while people read text or view images, which allows her to study how humans represent meaning. Fyshe also studies how computers learn to represent meaning when trained on text or images. She has discovered interesting connections between meaning representations in computer models and those in the human brain. Those connections serve to advance both our understanding of the brain and the state of the art in machine learning.
Fyshe earned her B.Sc. and M.Sc. in computing science at the University of Alberta and her Ph.D. in machine learning at Carnegie Mellon University.
