Eilif Muller
IVADO Associate Professor
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolEilif Muller is an IVADO Associate Professor and Canada CIFAR AI Chair at Université de Montréal who leads the Architectures of Biological Learning Lab, blending detailed biophysical simulations of neocortical circuits with deep convolutional networks to probe how sensory perception is learned. With 19 years of experience spanning academia, industry and large-scale simulation projects—including leadership roles at the Blue Brain Project and a Neuro-AI portfolio at Element AI—he bridges computational neuroscience and machine learning to inspire new algorithms. He is Principal Investigator at CHU Sainte-Justine Research Centre, an associate faculty member at Mila, and a co-founder/CSO translating neuroscience insights into technology. His work is highly cited (h-index 31, >7,400 citations), reflecting a rare combination of hands-on neural circuit modeling, software development history from C/C++ airborne systems to modern ML, and a persistent focus on dendritic mechanisms as a source of novel learning principles.
19 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Dr. rer. nat. Physics, Dr. rer. nat. Physics at Heidelberg UniversityB.Sc. (Honours) Mathematical Physics, B.Sc. (Honours) Mathematical Physics at Simon Fraser University
German, French
Github Skills (41)
simulation10
computational-neuroscience10
neurons10
simulator10
simulation-framework10
neuroscience10
specification10
spiking-neural-networks10
agent-based-simulation10
python9
morphology9
cpp8
microscopy8
brian8
nest8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ABL-Lab/libsonata
Oct 2022 - Mar 2025
A python and C++ interface to the SONATA format
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes in 2 years 5 months
pythonsonata
ABL-Lab/snap
Oct 2022 - Mar 2025
The Blue Brain Pythonic Simulation and Network Analysis Productivity layer
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 years 5 months
brainpythonsimulationmodeling-toolgraph-analysis
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