Steve Fleming
Fellow at CIFAR
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Fleming is a professor of cognitive neuroscience at UCL and Group Leader at the Max Planck UCL Centre, known for pioneering computational and neural models of metacognition and conscious experience. With a PhD from UCL and prior training at Oxford and NYU, he combines rigorous experimental work with formal modeling to link confidence and awareness reports to brain activity. He has published extensively, won major awards including the British Academy Wiley Prize and the Francis Crick Medal, and leads an ERC-funded ConsciousComputation programme. Beyond the lab, he translates his research into public-facing books, corporate training, and commentary on leadership, politics and climate, reflecting a rare blend of technical depth and real-world engagement. An unexpected thread through his work is a sustained interest in whether and how metacognitive architectures might arise in AI, bridging human neuroscience with emerging machine intelligence.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Psychology with Physiology, Bachelor of Arts - BA Psychology with Physiology at University of OxfordUniversity College London
Github Skills (23)
hierarchical10
meta10
matlab10
bids10
meta-analysis10
preprocessing9
accumulator9
perceptual8
simulation8
dot7
computation6
data-analysis5
probabilistic-models5
webppl5
python3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
metacoglab/HMeta-d
Jul 2014 - Dec 2022
Hierarchical meta-d' model
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 62 commits in 8 years 6 months
matlabmetahierarchicalmeta-analysisbids
metacoglab/FlemingVdPuttenDaw
Aug 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 14 pushes in 7 months
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