Ellie Pavlick is the associate chair of the Department of Computer Science, and a Carney collaborator on artificial intelligence projects that involve natural language processing - a technology that makes chatbots possible. How language works, in humans and machines, is Pavlick's central scientific fascination.

In 2024, the Robert J. and Nancy D. Carney Institute for Brain Science faculty made major strides in research, postdocs continued to build community and new scientific leaders joined the team.