Summary
Viviane Clay is an executive director and researcher specializing in neocortex-inspired artificial intelligence, leading the Thousand Brains Project with a PhD in Cognitive Computing and ~15 years of coding experience, primarily in Python. Her work centers on sensorimotor learning as a core component of intelligence, and she has translated that research into applied systems during leadership and senior research roles at Numenta. With hands-on experience in VR eye tracking, Unity, and MATLAB, she bridges experimental cognitive science and production-ready AI tooling. Based in Greece, she combines academic rigor from Universität Osnabrück with practical engineering fluency, and maintains a public project portfolio at vivianeclay.com that highlights interdisciplinary prototypes and research artifacts.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Bachelor of Arts - BA at Georgia College & State University
M. Sc., M. Sc. at Universität Osnabrück