Sean Hill

Dr. Sean Hill is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Senscience, a company advancing open, AI-ready, and context-rich data infrastructure to accelerate scientific discovery. He is also co-founder and Chief Science Officer (CSO) of Kelello Health, a digital platform transforming the delivery of measurement-based mental health care. Dr. Hill is a Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Physiology at the University of Toronto and a Collaborating Scientist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto, Canada. He is also Titular Professor at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. From 2018 to 2023, he served as the inaugural Director of the Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics at CAMH, where he led the application of data science, artificial intelligence, and multi-scale computational modeling to improve the diagnosis, prediction, and treatment of brain disorders. Dr. Hill completed his Ph.D. in computational neuroscience at the Université de Lausanne and pursued postdoctoral research at The Neurosciences Institute in La Jolla, California, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He subsequently joined the Computational Biology group at IBM Research. He has served as co-director of the Blue Brain Project, leading its Neuroinformatics division, and directed the neuroinformatics strategy and platform development for the Human Brain Project (2013–2016). Additionally, Dr. Hill was Executive Director (2011–2013) and Scientific Director (2014–2016) of the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden. Dr. Hill has extensive experience in large-scale data integration and in building and simulating biophysically detailed models of brain circuitry. His research focuses on the cellular basis of brain states within thalamocortical circuitry, developing numerous large-scale models of cortical and corticothalamic systems during wakefulness, sleep, and anesthetic conditions, contributing to the understanding of the cellular and synaptic mechanisms underlying diverse brain states.