Guillaume Dumas
2025
Anticipation Committee member
Pulse of Science
Guillaume Dumas is an Associate Professor of Computational Psychiatry in the Faculty of Medicine at the Université de Montréal and the Principal Investigator of the Precision Psychiatry and Social Physiology laboratory at the C.H.U. Sainte-Justine Azrieli Research Center. He holds the IVADO professorship for “AI in Mental Health” and is an appointed academic member of Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute. In 2023, he was recognized as a CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar in the “Brain, Mind, and Consciousness” program and was nominated as a Future Leader in Canadian Brain Research by the Brain Canada Foundation. Previously, he was a permanent researcher in Neuroscience and Computational Biology at the Institut Pasteur (Paris, France) and a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences (FAU, USA). He holds an engineering degree in advanced engineering and computer science (École Centrale Paris), two MSc degrees (theoretical physics, Paris-Saclay University; cognitive science, ENS/EHESS/Paris 5), a PhD in cognitive neuroscience (Sorbonne University), and the Habilitation to Supervise Research (HDR) in medicine (Université Paris Cité). Dr. Dumas’s research focuses on the neural foundations of human social cognition, integrating biological, psychological, and social facets of the human mind. His laboratory cross-fertilizes AI/ML, cognitive neuroscience, and digital medicine through an interdisciplinary program with two main axes: 1) AI/ML for Mental Health, developing new algorithms to investigate the development of human cognitive architecture and deliver personalized medicine in neuropsychiatry using data from the genome to smartphones; 2) Social Neuroscience for AI/ML, translating basic brain research and dynamical systems formalism into scientific machine learning models (SciML) and machines with social learning ability (Social NeuroAI & HMI). Dr. Dumas also engages in numerous projects intersecting science and society, promoting open science, shaping AI strategy (as an expert for French national plans), and advocating for cognitive freedom (twice UN invited expert).
