Formal Bio

Erin Grant is an Assistant Professor in Psychology and Computing Science at the University of Alberta and a Fellow at Amii. Her research bridges cognitive science, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence to understand how minds, brains, and machines learn to perceive the world, structure their knowledge, and act towards their goals. Erin earned her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 2022 with support from Canada’s Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council. During her Ph.D., Erin spent time at OpenAI, Google Brain, and DeepMind. Before joining Alberta, Erin was an Assistant Professor & Faculty Fellow at NYU, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit and the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre at University College London. Erin currently serves on the Women in Machine Learning Board of Directors and is an active member of organizing committees for ICLR, NeurIPS, and CCN. She was named a Canada CIFAR AI Chair and an Azrieli Global Scholar by CIFAR in 2026, and a Rising Star of Neuroscience by The Transmitter in 2025.