Bahareh Tolooshams
Bahareh Tolooshams

Assistant Professor, ECE, University of Alberta
Adjunct Professor, CS, University of Alberta
Fellow, Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii)
Canada CIFAR AI Chair, Amii
Member, Neuroscience and Mental Health Institute (NMHI)

[email] [scholar] [github] [NeuBahar Lab]

Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
- Karl Popper


I am the PI of NeuBahar Lab (Neuro–Bayesian AI for Human-interpretable Abstractions and Representation Learning). I am an Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta, an Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) Fellow, and a Canada CIFAR AI Chair. I am also a member of the Neuroscience and Mental Health Institute (NMHI). I received my PhD in May 2023 from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University, where I was also affiliated with the Center for Brain Science. Before joining the University of Alberta, I was a postdoctoral researcher and held the Swartz Foundation Fellowship Theoretical in Neuroscience for two years at the AI for Science Lab at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). During my PhD, I also worked at Amazon AI and Microsoft as a Research Intern. I have a BASc degree with distinction from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo.

Check out my Keynote talk on Interpretability in Artificial Intelligence at Upper Bound Conference.

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News
  • 08/2026: Check out Sohini's preprint on FactoMap for disentangled representations.
  • 07/2026: Diego Chevarria is awarded the UTEC-UAlberta Research Scholarship and will visit NeuBahar Lab this Fall.
  • 07/2026: Niki Sepasian received the 2026 University of Alberta Graduate Recruitment Scholarship.
  • 07/2026: Valérie Costa received 2026 Graduate Fellowships by Kempner Institute and will move to Harvard University for her PhD studies.
  • 05/2026: Khoi, Michael, Raza, and Sam (our undergraduate members) started their summer research.
  • 03/2026: We have initiated the UAlberta NeuroAI Reading Club.
  • 01/2026: Sohini Gupta has joined NeuBahar Lab and started her PhD studies on disentangled representations.
  • 06/2025: I have joined the University of Alberta as an Assistant Professor.
  • 07/2024: I co-initiated and co-led a NeurReps Global Speaker Series.
  • 04/2024: I am part of the 2024 NeurReps at NeurIPS workshop organizing team.