BioML Seminar 2.3 - Mapping the Brain with Viren Jain

​Viren Jain is a Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google in Mountain View, California, where he leads Google’s Connectomics team. They have been responsible for a litany of tools like flood-filling networks, the SegCLR algorithm and TensorStore, an open-source C++ and Python software library to store and manage massive multi-dimensional datasets. In 2020, their team published the first large-scale connectome in any species since C. elegans — the Drosophila Hemibrain Connectome. Last year, they released a synaptic-resolution reconstruction of a 1 cubic mm piece of human brain tissue. Most recently, they released the Zebrafish Activity Prediction Benchmark (ZAPBench) to measure progress on the problem of predicting cellular-resolution neural activity throughout an entire vertebrate brain.

Join us to hear about his ground-breaking work in understanding the structure and function of the brain!