Program
The Fall 2026 speaker series runs September through December, with seven talks. Times and format vary by session. Seats and RSVPs are managed on Luma; sessions already held move to the record below.
Dr. Laurent Itti
Attention and Computational Vision (series kickoff)
Professor of computer science, psychology, and neuroscience at USC, where he directs the iLab. His work spans visual attention, computational neuroscience, and machine vision.
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Held · Sep 10, 2026 · Speaker series · Kickoff
Dr. Laurent Itti opened the Fall 2026 series with two decades of work on visual saliency and its route into clinical eye-tracking, including a 15-minute video that separates ADHD from Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder at 77% accuracy. Recorded as episode 1 of the PRAXIS podcast.
Listen on SpotifyHeld · Sep 1, 2026 · Live demo · Leavey Library, Room 202L
A live demonstration of ClinicalWhisper, the speech model adapted for clinical interview audio, run in session on a real recording: transcription, speaker separation, acoustic features, and the score. Recorded; the recording is embedded below.
If you apply computational methods to psychiatric questions (modeling, imaging, digital phenotyping, or clinical machine learning), we would like to host you. Talks run 45 minutes plus discussion, in person or over Zoom.