Ariel Rokem is an AI Scientist with the Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. He received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley (2010) and completed postdoctoral training in computational neuroimaging at Stanford (2011-2015). Subsequently, he was a Senior Data Scientist at the University of Washington eScience Institute (2015-2020) and faculty in the Department of Psychology (2020-2026), before joining CAMH. His group (https://rokemlab.github.io) specializes in the application of data science methods to fundamental and applied neuroscience questions. Dr. Rokem was the recipient of the Neuro – Irv and Helga Cooper Foundation Open Science Prize in 2023, as a member of the Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS) steering group, and also received the 2024 Organization for Human Brain Mapping Education in Neuroimaging Award. He is an author of the book “Neuroimaging and Data Science: An Introduction”, which is freely available online.