Devon Jarvis

Devon Jarvis is an Associate Lecturer in the School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the University of Witwatersrand. He was a visiting researcher at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit and Sainsbury Wellcome Centre at UCL under a Commonwealth Scholarship.

He is also completed his PhD with Benjamin Rosman, Richard Klein (both of whom are members of the Indaba’s Executive Board) and Andrew Saxe supported by the Google PhD Fellowship and under the mentorship of Gamaleldin Elsayed.

His research focuses on understanding the meso-scale structure of the brain and how these structures function computationally and algorithmically to learn high-level concepts from low-level sensory inputs. Devon aims to understand how these concepts can afford the brain the ability to systematically generalise, perform context sensitive, control semantic cognition and support goal oriented decision making.

He is also the co-founder of the Cognition and Adaptation Lab (CAandL) in the University of Witwatersrand, which is a research group that focuses on understanding the intersection of machine learning and computational neuroscience, with a focus on the brain's meso-scale properties (support the development of cognitive abilities).