Iyadh Chaker

I obtained my Master’s degree in Software Engineering from the University of Carthage. During my studies, I worked in various industry roles, where I developed computer vision algorithms and set up data-fusion pipelines and cloud infrastructure. My experience with production AI systems shifted my interests towards alternative computing paradigms and foundational questions about computation itself. For my Master’s thesis, I collaborated with the Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance (DRCMR) to develop a new Bayesian method for mapping parameters onto fMRI data. Later, I joined the Nuclear Physics and Quantum Computing group at the University of Trento, where I worked on quantum computing algorithms for simulating many-body systems. Now, as a Research Fellow in the Rossi Lab at IIT, I am investigating the principles by which visual circuits disambiguate self-generated movement from external movement, using a combination of calcium imaging and electrophysiological recordings from the superior colliculus.