Master Class - "Modeling and bias: principles, challenges and issues"

• Understand the place of modeling among scientific approaches

• Define the basic principles and concepts: the different types of models and how they are developed

• Identify the biases and risks involved to avoid pitfalls and errors

• Present the technological and scientific challenges

• Discuss tomorrow's challenges modeling the complexity of living systems, frugal approaches

Frédéric Alexandre is research director at Inria, team leader of the MNEMOSYNE project-team and researcher in computational neuroscience and artificial intelligence. The team is shared with the UMR Labri of the CNRS and is based at the Bordeaux Neurocampus.

The goals of the MNEMOSYNE project-team are (1) to model the association of our different forms of memory (e.g., combining know-how and know-what, or learning rules of thumb and concrete cases), (2) to understand how they interact in our main cognitive functions (decision-making, reasoning, imagination), and (3) to study associated pathologies (linked to the basal ganglia, prefrontal cortex, and hippocampus).