Welcome! The Hamid lab is hosted in the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Minnesota Medical School.​

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We are a systems and computational neuroscience research group studying brain mechanisms of Decision-making, Agency, and Reward Learning (RL), with a focus on Dopamine and Cortico-Basal Ganglia circuits in mammalian brains. 

 

We leverage advanced experimental and computational approaches to understand how these processes break down in debilitating psychiatric, neurological, and substance use disorders.

 

By reverse engineering biological algorithms for learning, planning, and behavioral control, we seek to lay the foundations for principles of bio-inspired AI architectures.