{"id":1475,"date":"2021-10-19T16:02:36","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T20:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/science\/profiles\/?post_type=faculty&#038;p=1475"},"modified":"2024-10-15T14:18:21","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T18:18:21","slug":"kohitij-kar","status":"publish","type":"faculty","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/science\/profiles\/faculty\/kohitij-kar\/","title":{"rendered":"Kohitij Kar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About Me<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Kohitij Kar is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biology in the Faculty of Science at 快播视频, Toronto, Canada. Dr. Kar is also a Canada Research Chair in Visual Neuroscience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prior to this, Dr. Kar was a Research Scientist at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, working in the lab of Dr. James DiCarlo. Before joining the DiCarlo Lab, he completed his Ph.D. in the Department of Behavioral and Neural Sciences at Rutgers University in New Jersey (PhD advisor: Bart Krekelberg) in 2015. Dr. Kar\u2019s research lies at the intersection of neurophysiological investigations of visual intelligence in non-human primates and artificial intelligence systems. His work has been published in top-tier neuroscience journals like Science, Nature Neuroscience, and Neuron and competitive machine learning conferences like NeurIPS and ICLR. 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