Nao is a neuroscientist Associate Professor at Monash University. He studied at California Institute of Technology (PhD supervisor: Prof. Christoph Koch) and awarded PhD in 2006. He had postdoc-training in Caltech and held visiting researcher positions at RIKEN and ATR while receiving JST PREST fellowship.
His research intrest is consciousness – “What is consciousness? Can we tell if other animals experience subjectivity, or whether there will be conscious machines or robots?” Nao and his team seek for answers to these fundamental philosophical questions!