Ford Burles, PhD

Cognitive Neuroscientist, AI/ML Engineer
VP of Product Development, Olenox Industries Inc.
Managing Director & Co-Founder, Psylinks Neurotech Corp.

Ford Burles earned his PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Calgary, where his dissertation disambiguated the role of the retrosplenial complex in human navigation, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Rotman Research Institute.

His work spans spatial cognition and wayfinding, neuroimaging (MRI/fMRI), EEG/ERP analysis, neurofeedback systems, signal processing, and machine-learning model design, with a focus on turning hard neuroscience and ML problems into research infrastructure and deployable software. He has authored more than 50 peer-reviewed publications and was a co-investigator on the Canadian Space Agency's Wayfinding project studying astronaut adaptation to spaceflight. He also architects Gettinglost.ca, a public cognitive-assessment platform.

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