Ida Momennejad is principal researcher in reinforcement learning at Microsoft Research, where she broadly focuses on building and evaluating generative artificial intelligence, inspired by her research in cognitive neuroscience, reinforcement learning and NeuroAI.
Previously, she was as associate researcher in the biomedical engineering department at Columbia University, and before that she did her postdoctoral work in computational neuroscience at Princeton University. Momennejad completed her Ph.D. at Humboldt University of Berlin, where she did research at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience. She earned her M.Sc. degree in philosophy of science in Utrecht, the Netherlands, and her undergraduate degree in software engineering in Tehran, Iran. Learn more.