Keynote Addresses

Rich Ivry is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his B.A. in Psychology from Brown University, and Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Oregon. He has been a faculty member of the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley since 1991. Rich directs the Cognition and Action lab, using various tools of cognitive neuroscience to explore human performance in healthy and neurologically impaired populations.  He has a long-standing interest in the cerebellum, seeking to understand the role of this subcortical structure in skilled movement, timing, and, through its interactions with the cerebral cortex, cognition. Rich spends a lot of time outdoors hiking and biking in the San Francisco Bay area or surfing in the chilly Pacific Ocean.

Dr. Devika Narain is an associate professor and principal investigator at the Dept. of Neuroscience, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. She and her team combine computational and systems neuroscience approaches to investigate neural circuits that underlie the precise temporal control of movements. Before returning to the Netherlands, she was a postdoctoral fellow at MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Cambridge, USA. She was also trained at NASA’s Ames Research Center in the USA and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Germany. Prior to this, she obtained her PhD at the Vrije University, Amsterdam, and studied electrical engineering and neuroscience in Munich, Palo Alto, and Bangalore. The long-term goals of her research are to decipher neural circuit mechanisms for temporal control and adapt these insights toward effective brain-computer interfaces in mammalian models of movement impairment.