Sean Hill.

Sean Hill

Adjunct professor of psychiatry, University of Toronto
Titular professor of computational neuroscience, EPFL

Sean Hill is founder and CEO of Senscience, an artificial-intelligence venture dedicated to accelerating science through open, AI-ready research data. He is adjunct professor of psychiatry at the University of Toronto and titular professor of computational neuroscience at EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne). A neuroscientist and computational modeler, Hill is an international leader in neuroinformatics and biologically detailed brain simulation, and his work bridges basic neuroscience, artificial intelligence and the data infrastructures that allow science to build on itself.

He was co-director of the Blue Brain Project at EPFL, where he co-led efforts to reconstruct and simulate detailed models of neural circuits and helped pioneer AI-driven approaches to neuroscience, having first joined the project as an IBM researcher in 2006. At the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, he founded the Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics and served as its inaugural director, bringing data science, computational modeling and open science into the study of mental health.

Hill has also helped lead major international initiatives, directing the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility and the neuroinformatics effort within the Human Brain Project. Through these roles, he helped shape the standards, infrastructure and communities that modern neuroscience depends on. Throughout his career, his focus has stayed constant: making research data open, responsible and reusable, and accelerating discovery in brain health.

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