Corentin Puffay

About me

I am a postdoctoral researcher at KU Leuven with a strong interest in Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence. I am affiliated with the ExpORL group (Prof. Tom Francart) and the PSI group (Prof. Hugo Van hamme) at KU Leuven. I visited the research group of Prof. Nima Mesgarani at Columbia University in June 2024. I am currently (from March 2026) visiting Prof. Laura Gwilliams's research group at Stanford University.

My research focuses on modeling language processing in the human brain by linking speech representations to brain responses measured through EEG and invasive recordings. Recently, my interest in Large Language Models has increased, and I now utilize them to generate language representations that have been shown to capture aspects of language processing similar to those found in the human brain.

In June 2025, I obtained my Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering & Biomedical Sciences, focusing on relating different features of continuous speech to brain signals using deep learning architectures, ranging from convolutional networks to transformers. I further attempted to validate my models to study speech processing in various populations, including those with aphasia and epilepsy.