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Chris Eliasmith

ResearcherPhilosophy/Systems Design EngineeringUniversity of Waterloo

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Chris Eliasmith

Researcher

Philosophy/Systems Design Engineering

Engineering

University of Waterloo

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
7 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 5 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 15 research grants (15 NSERC), most recently in 2022.

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Latest papers

Compositional neurosymbolic representations enable efficient active exploration.
Nature communications · 2026 · senior author
A unified neurocomputational model of prospective and retrospective timing.
Psychological review · 2025
Modelling neural probabilistic computation using vector symbolic architectures.
Cognitive neurodynamics · 2024 · senior author

All 45 publications

Latest funding

Theoretical Neuroscience
NSERC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$300,000
Large-scale neural models of cognitive function
NSERC · 2020 · Principal investigator
$370,205
Theoretical Neuroscience
NSERC · 2016 · Principal investigator
$200,000

All 15 grants and awards

45 publications.

Compositional neurosymbolic representations enable efficient active exploration.

Furlong PM, Dumont NS, Antonova R, Orchard J, Eliasmith C

Nature communications2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-75703-4 PMID: 42768011

A unified neurocomputational model of prospective and retrospective timing.

de Jong J, Voelker AR, Stewart TC, Akyürek EG, Eliasmith C, van Rijn H

Psychological review2025

DOI: 10.1037/rev0000519 PMID: 39760713

Modelling neural probabilistic computation using vector symbolic architectures.

Furlong PM, Eliasmith C

Cognitive neurodynamics2024Senior author

DOI: 10.1007/s11571-023-10031-7 PMID: 39712100

A scalable spiking amygdala model that explains fear conditioning, extinction, renewal and generalization.

Duggins P, Eliasmith C

The European journal of neuroscience2024Senior author

DOI: 10.1111/ejn.16338 PMID: 38616566

Exploiting semantic information in a spiking neural SLAM system.

Dumont NS, Furlong PM, Orchard J, Eliasmith C

Frontiers in neuroscience2023Senior author

DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2023.1190515 PMID: 37476829

Biologically-Based Computation: How Neural Details and Dynamics Are Suited for Implementing a Variety of Algorithms.

Dumont NS, Stöckel A, Furlong PM, Bartlett M, Eliasmith C, Stewart TC

Brain sciences2023

DOI: 10.3390/brainsci13020245 PMID: 36831788

Constructing functional models from biophysically-detailed neurons.

Duggins P, Eliasmith C

PLoS computational biology2022Senior author

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010461 PMID: 36074765

Simulating and Predicting Dynamical Systems With Spatial Semantic Pointers.

Voelker AR, Blouw P, Choo X, Dumont NS, Stewart TC, Eliasmith C

Neural computation2021Senior author

DOI: 10.1162/neco_a_01410 PMID: 34310679

Connecting Biological Detail With Neural Computation: Application to the Cerebellar Granule-Golgi Microcircuit.

Stöckel A, Stewart TC, Eliasmith C

Topics in cognitive science2021Senior author

DOI: 10.1111/tops.12536 PMID: 34146453

Passive Nonlinear Dendritic Interactions as a Computational Resource in Spiking Neural Networks.

Stöckel A, Eliasmith C

Neural computation2021Senior author

DOI: 10.1162/neco_a_01338 PMID: 33080158