Yan M Yufik
Virtual Structures Research, Inc, United States
Biography:
Yan M. Yufik holds Ph.D. in Physics and received post-doctoral training in Cybernetics and Cognitive Science. Yan pioneered research in machine understanding and formulated a model of understanding mechanisms (gnostron) expressing ideas and approaches orthogonal to those motivating the models of learning (perceptron). Until 2015, Yan was directing a firm conducting advanced R&D for the DoD. Presently, he heads a non-profit dedicated to machine understanding studies. In 2021, Yan organized and co-edited Special Issue in Frontiers Systems Neuroscience seeking to represent the state-of-the-art in the study of understanding. Yan has published over 40 papers and five book chapters on the subject and received 5 US patents.