Juyang Weng

Juyang (John) Weng is a Chinese-American computer engineer, neuroscientist, author, and academic. He is a former professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State University and the President of Brain-Mind Institute and GENISAMA. Weng has conducted research on grounded machine learning by intersecting computer science and engineering, with brain and cognitive science. In collaborative research efforts with his coworkers, he has explored mental architectures and computational models for autonomous development across various domains such as vision, audition, touch, behaviors, and motivational systems, both in biological and engineered systems. He has authored two books, ''Natural and Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Computational Brain-Mind and Motion'' and ''Structure from Image Sequences'', and is the editor of the book series 'New Frontiers in Robotics.' In addition, he has published over 300 articles.

Weng is a Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Founder and President of the Brain-Mind Institute, and the startup GENISAMA. He is also the Founder and Editor-in-chief of the ''International Journal of Humanoid Robotics'' and the ''Brain-Mind Magazine'' and an Associate Editor of the ''IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development'' (now Cognitive and Developmental Systems). Additionally, he served as a Guest editor for five special issues, including ''What AI and Neuroscience Can Learn from Each Other: Open Problems in Models and Theories, Cognitive Computation'', ''The Special Issue on Brain Imaging-informed Multimodal Analysis, IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development'', and ''The Special Issue on Autonomous Mental Development, International Journal of Humanoid Robotics''. Provided by Wikipedia