Mariya Toneva
Tenure-track faculty at Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS)
📍 Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany
Mariya Toneva is a tenure-track faculty member at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, where she leads the Bridging AI and Neuroscience (BrAIN) group. A graduate of Carnegie Mellon University (PhD) and Yale University (BS), her research focuses on aligning artificial intelligence with human brain processes for language comprehension.
She recently received a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant for her project "BrainAlign. " This project aims to bring Large Language Models closer to human understanding by directly aligning them with neural activity from the human brain.
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4 Years
Current Role
Tenure-track faculty
Location
Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany
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Priorities
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AI-Brain Alignment
Her core research, funded by a nearly €1. 5 million ERC grant, is dedicated to aligning AI language models with human brain processes for better understanding.
Computational Neuroscience
She builds computational models to understand language processing in the brain, bridging machine learning, NLP, and neuroscience.
Career
Work history
9-2022
Tenure-track faculty
Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS)
7-2021 - 8-2022
C.V. Starr Scholar
Princeton University
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Education
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
Carnegie Mellon University
Bachelor of Science - BS
Yale University
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