Prof. Mariya Toneva joined the tenure-track faculty at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, where she leads the BrAIN (Bridging AI and Neuroscience) group. Her research is at the intersection of Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Neuroscience, with a focus on building computational models of language processing in the brain that can also improve natural language processing systems. Prior to MPI-SWS, she was a C.V. Starr Fellow at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute and obtained her PhD from Carnegie Mellon University in a joint programme between Machine Learning and Neural Computation.