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Contributeurs prêts à entreprendre une portée définie de recherche, éducative ou appliquée et à la partager publiquement à intervalles réguliers.

Bourse d'études

Un cheminement de contribution continu pour les chercheurs et praticiens développant des travaux publics alignés avec l'Active Inférence.

Les pairs développent des recherches, des applications ou des ressources publiques alignées avec l'Institut et l'Écosystème, fournissent des rapports de progression réguliers et produisent des résultats qui font avancer le domaine et restent accessibles au public.

Qu'est-ce que font les Fellows ?

Fellows work on a defined project or area of focus — research, software, educational materials, ontology, applications, or ecosystem support — and report on their progress at regular intervals. Reporting is public: fellows share updates through the community newsletter, project meetings, or public posts.

These outputs accumulate into a body of work that is available to the entire Active Inference community and beyond.

Ce qu'une association exige

Fellowship requires a meaningful time commitment and a clear scope. Fellows are expected to make progress on their defined work, communicate regularly about that progress, and deliver results that are useful to others.

The specific requirements — reporting cadence, deliverables — are established between the fellow and the Institute at the start of the fellowship. The Research Fellow role is an unpaid, non-employee position with a default term of two years, possibly renewable.

Boursiers de recherche actuels

Le tableau ci-dessous présente le Research Fellows actuel de l'Institut, leur date d'affectation, leur orientation de projet, l'ID ORCID et leur propre description de la recherche. La liste des membres est générée à partir du registre des membres de l'Institut, ce qui reflète les affectations actuelles plutôt qu'une capture d'écran figée dans le texte.

À qui de droit

Fellowship is suited for people who have already engaged with the Institute through volunteering, internship, or independent research and are ready to take on a larger, more sustained commitment. Prior experience with Active Inference is expected — fellows are contributors who can work with significant autonomy on a defined problem.

If you are new to the Institute, starting through volunteering or internship is the recommended path to fellowship.

Exigences de l'application

Un dossier de candidature complet de stagiaire de recherche comprend une confirmation que le candidat a lu et accepté les conditions du programme de stagiaires; une proposition de recherche d'une à six pages (hors citations) avec un résumé de 300 mots maximum, des questions et objectifs de recherche, leur importance, l'approche, leur adéquation avec la mission de l'Institut, les résultats attendus et un calendrier; un curriculum vitae actuel; une ou plusieurs lettres de recommandation; et jusqu'à cinq publications ou produits représentatifs. Les dossiers complets et les questions sont envoyés à blanket@activeinference.institute avec [STAGIAIRES] dans la ligne d’objet.

Sorties et Registre Public

Fellowship outputs are intended to be publicly useful. Papers, software repositories, educational course materials, ontology contributions, datasets, and project documentation all count as fellowship outputs.

The Institute supports fellows in making their work findable, citable, and reusable by the broader community. Published outputs are part of the permanent public record of the Institute's research and educational work.

Comment devenir un associé du « Active Inference Institute

Fellowship begins with a conversation about your proposed work and how it aligns with Institute and Ecosystem goals. The fellows pathway page describes the current process for expressing interest and proposing a fellowship scope.

Most fellowships develop from existing participation — active contributors who want to formalize and deepen their engagement.

Conditions de bourse

The Research Fellow role is unpaid and non-employee, governed by a signed offer letter and a set of program terms. Fellows provide regular (e.g. quarterly) progress reports describing their research activities, achievements, and challenges, and participate in an annual evaluation.

The Institute does not claim any access to a Fellow's private work, and a Fellow's participation in Institute programs does not affect the Fellow's or the Institute's IP rights. Fellows are encouraged, though not required, to list "Research Fellow, Active Inference Institute" as a professional affiliation on related outputs.

Boursiers de recherche actuels

9 courants Research Fellows

Chaque chercheur travaille sur un périmètre de recherche défini et en y publie ses résultats. Les lignes proviennent de la liste Research Fellows de l’Institut.

Current Research Fellows at the Active Inference Institute.
Cher/ChèrePosteFellow sinceConcentrez-vousK0recherche
Alexander HemmingResearch Fellow3/2026Foundations of IdeologyCross-disciplinary framework rooted in political neuroscience offering a normative account of how ideologies form, update, and interact, grounded in the Free Energy Principle.
Jake HooperResearch Fellow3/2026
Mahault AlbarracinResearch Fellow3/2026AI2C: Active Inference Alignment Coalition0000-0003-0916-4645Proposal for the Active Inference Alignment Coalition, a multi-institution consortium producing large-scale proposals for AI alignment grounded in the Free Energy Principle and Active Inference, with a standardized governance framework, reusable proposal modules, and shared infrastructure for evidence synthesis, benchmarking, and stakeholder engagement.
Hongju PaeResearch Fellow11/2025Perspective Architectures for Coherent and Attuned Artificial Agency0000-0002-5174-8858Develops computational and theoretical frameworks for modeling how artificial agents form perspective, maintain coherent affect, and achieve developmental alignment, integrating Active Inference with phenomenological insights. Builds simulation prototypes toward testable architectures of sentience for safe, ecologically grounded machine minds.
Sheila MacrineResearch Fellow11/2025Multi-dimensional taxonomy of agency0000-0002-8600-0938Extends the framework from the forthcoming book 'Embodied Intelligence: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Natural, Artificial, and Hybrid Systems' (MIT Press, 2026). Proposes a multi-dimensional taxonomy of agency formalizing nine qualitative dimensions — intentionality, autonomy, reflexivity, and others — as tunable Active Inference parameters, distinguishing agency (the driver) from intelligence (the engine).
Shagor RahmanResearch Fellow8/2025Myth of Objectivity0009-0004-0460-0078Investigates how morality and symbolic thought co-evolved (the Myth of Objectivity Hypothesis): the capacity to model shared cultural expectations enabled humans to transcend individual perspectives. Uses multi-agent active inference simulations and transcendental model selection, and offers a perspective on AI and AGI alignment.
Robert WordenResearch Fellow10/2024Wave Hypothesis0000-0001-7304-2752Two main research interests: 3-D spatial cognition, proposing wave-based rather than pure neural-firing models of consciousness in the thalamus and insect central body; and language, covering its evolution, learning, and brain mechanisms.
Jean-François CloutierResearch Fellow5/2024Symbolic Cognitive Robotics0009-0001-1841-2279I seek to find out what it takes, at a minimum, for a robot to learn, on its own, how to survive in a world it knows initially almost nothing about. Continuation of a project of many years programming simple autonomous robots to develop and ground understanding of cognition. Drawn into Active Inference, Kantian epistemology, map vs territory, biosemiotics, mortal computing, collective intelligence, autopoiesis and constraint closure.
John BoikResearch Fellow5/2024Cognitive Narrative Ecosystem (CogNarr)0000-0003-1289-7997Continuation of work described in a book and two series of concept papers exploring science-driven de novo development of new cognitive architectures fit for purpose. First series: new societal (economic and governance) systems as components of a society's cognitive architecture. Second series: an online ecosystem facilitating cognition in the large-group setting.

Surfaces clés

Bourse de recherche : un aperçu

Portée définie

Un objectif de projet clair — recherche, logiciel, éducation ou travail appliqué — convenu dès le départ.

Rapports réguliers

Les pairs partagent leurs progrès publiquement à intervalles réguliers, contribuant ainsi au dossier communautaire.

Sorties publiques

Des articles, des logiciels, des matériaux éducatifs et des ensembles de données qui restent accessibles au public.

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