Brice Ménard

Brice Ménard's research combines physics and statistics. After a first chapter working primarily on astrophysics, he now does research on the physics of learning and the properties of neural networks in artificial & biological systems.

Brice Ménard is a professor of physics & astronomy at Johns Hopkins University, with secondary appointments in cognitive science and computer science. He received his PhD from both the Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris and the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Germany. He was a postdoctoral member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and a senior research associate at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics in Toronto. He joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins University in 2010. In addition, he was a visiting professor at the Kavli institute at Tokyo University, the Ecole Normale de Paris, Planet Labs & OpenAI in San Francisco.