Dear Colleagues,
Join us for the Workshop “Neuro for AI & AI for Neuro: Towards Multi-Modal Natural Intelligence” at the AAAI 2026 conference in Singapore on January 27, 2026.
We are bringing together researchers in neuroscience and AI to explore how brain principles can inspire multimodal models, and how AI can push the frontiers of neuroscience. Please see details below and at
https://neuroai-multimodal-workshop.github.io/.
We invite submissions of full papers or abstracts that describe new research, work in progress, or position statements on relevant topics. The full paper submissions should be 8 pages maximum, excluding references, and the abstract submissions
should be 2 pages maximum, excluding references, in the AAAI two-column format.
Please submit your work by October 30, 2025 at https://openreview.net/group?id=AAAI.org/2026/Workshop/NeuroAI.
Invited speakers include
Organizing Committee:
Description of workshop: This workshop will unite researchers in artificial intelligence, computational neuroscience, and neuromorphic engineering to explore the critical two-way exchange between biology and machine learning. Our
main objective is to bridge these fields to accelerate foundational progress in multimodal natural intelligence. The “Neuro → AI” theme will investigate how principles from cortical microcircuits, such as sparse coding, dendritic nonlinearities, and cell-type
diversity, can inspire novel, efficient, and robust AI architectures like transformers and graph-based models. Conversely, the “AI → Neuro” theme will showcase how advanced machine-learning techniques are revolutionizing neuroscience, enabling new insights
into neural dynamics through AI-driven analysis of large-scale imaging, electrophysiological, and behavioral data. By bridging the gap between biologically grounded inductive biases for AI and scalable computational tools for neuroscience, this workshop aims
to catalyze research that unifies theory, experiment, and application.
Topics:
Format of Workshop: This will be a one-day, in-person workshop. The format is designed to be highly interactive, featuring a series of invited talks from world-renowned experts, two panel discussions for in-depth Q&A, and spotlight
presentations for high-impact contributed papers. A central poster session will provide a forum for detailed discussion and networking. The day will conclude with a roundtable discussion to identify key community challenges and a sponsored social gathering
to foster continued collaboration.
Attendance: We welcome researchers and practitioners from academia and industry with an interest in the intersection of neuroscience and artificial intelligence. At least one author of each accepted submission must be present at
the workshop. The maximum number of attendees is to be determined by the room size and will be communicated by AAAI.
Please reach out if you have any questions. We look forward to seeing you in Singapore!
Best regards,
Reza Abbasi-Asl, Asim Iqbal, Sophia Sanborn, Shinya Ito, and Anton Arkhipov.
Anton Arkhipov
Investigator, Allen Institute