# Michal Irani **Entity class:** Person **Domain:** Computer vision / Neuroimaging **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition Michal Irani is a computer-vision researcher at the Weizmann Institute of Science whose laboratory developed Brain-IT. ## Mechanism and significance Her work connects self-supervised visual learning with bidirectional mapping between images and measured brain activity. ## Relationships - **Research dossier:** [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] - **Ontology route:** [[ASI and RSI Timeline Ontology#Neural Decoding and Cognitive Systems|Neural Decoding and Cognitive Systems]] - **Primary fields:** [[Neural Decoding]] · [[Brain-Computer Interfaces]] · [[Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging]] - **Adjacent concepts:** [[Brain-IT]] · [[Neural Encoding Model]] · [[Reverse Brain Encoder]] - **Institutional context:** [[Weizmann Institute of Science]] ## Sources and provenance - [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] — immediate source for this node's role in the broadcast research map. ## Evidence boundary The research dossier establishes why this entity or concept belongs in the Moonshots ontology. Time-sensitive organizational, product, policy, and performance claims should be checked against the linked primary source or a current authoritative source before reuse as settled fact.