Ninon Lizé Masclef
I’m reconstructing dreams as immersive 3D scenes by using AI to decode visual imagination from brainwave activity during sleep. Learn more
Ninon Lizé Masclef is an inventor, AI and neuroscience researcher, and media artist.
She is currently a Research Affiliate at MIT Media Lab, where she co-leads research on reconstructing 3D visual perception and imagery from brainwaves.
Her first brain-computer interface, Strange Loops, was named one of the Top 100 French Inventions of 2024 by a distinguished jury composed of Nobel and Turing laureates. When not advancing foundation models for multimodal brain decoding, she performs brainwave music internationally at venues such as the Internet Archive and Deutsches Museum and serves as Chair of Finance and Sponsorship at Women in Machine Learning (WiML).
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My goal is to develop and rigorously validate a working prototype for dream reconstruction from EEG data supported by lucid dream recordings and in collaboration with international sleep experts. This involves continuing my research at MIT, scaling from awake-state to dream-state decoding using high-resolution EEG, and presenting findings at a top-tier conference. It represents the first step in a deeptech venture to explore and decode the subconscious through neural interfaces.
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