Sean Lewis Hill is an American neuroscientist, Professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine, and co-founder and CEO of Senscience, an AI startup dedicated to transforming science with open data.
Until December 2024, he also served as co-director of the Blue Brain Project at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne located on the Campus Biotech in Geneva, Switzerland.
[3] Hill is known for the development of large-scale computational models of brain circuitry, neuroinformatics, and innovation in AI for mental health.
After working with Nobel prize winner Gerald Edelman and Giulio Tononi at The Neurosciences Institute in San Diego, Hill continued his postdoctoral research at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
The center applies machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques, as well as multi-scale modeling of the brain to understand mental health disorders.