I am a Senior Scientst in the Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, where I am the principal investigator of a Neuroinformatics R&D Group

Tal Yarkoni and I wrote a book about neuroimaging and data science that is also freely available online.

Professional biography

Ariel Rokem received a Bachelors and Masters degree in Biology and Cognitive Psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2002 and 2005). He then received a PhD in neuroscience from UC Berkeley (2010) and additional postdoctoral training in computational neuroimaging at Stanford (2011 - 2015). He was a Senior Data Scientist at the eScience Institute and faculty in the Department of Psychology at the University of Washington (2015-2026), joining the Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics at CAMH as an AI Scientist in 2026. His group (https://rokemlab.github.io) specializes in the application of data science methods to fundamental and applied neuroscience questions.