August 4 • 9:30 – 10:15am in the Buckham Room

Ivan Raikov is a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University, where he uses some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world to create computer models of the mouse brain and understand the mechanisms of memory. Ivan’s educational background was shaped by his interest in computer science, fascination with the complexity of the brain, and firm belief that science should be used for improvement of the human condition. Ivan was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, studied computer science as an undergraduate at Georgia Tech, and conducted his graduate research work in Okinawa, Japan.