Charan Ranganath is a Professor at the Center for Neuroscience and Department of Psychology and director of the Dynamic Memory Lab at the University of California at Davis. For over 25 years, Dr. Ranganath has studied the mechanisms in the brain that allow us to remember past events, using brain imaging techniques, computational modeling and studies of patients with memory disorders. He has been recognized with several awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship. He lives in Davis, California. Outside of neuroscience, Dr. Ranganath is also a songwriter and guitarist with a number of recording credits, including a song on a feature film soundtrack.
Summit 2025
Friday ·
10:30am
With AI now co-authoring our thoughts, conversations, and creations, the self is no longer only private terrain. What once felt internal — our words, our memory, our judgment — now unfolds in dialogue with a system that speaks back. Maggie Jackson explores uncertainty and attention as essential resources in this new symbolic space. Charan Ranganath explores the powerful role memory plays in nearly every aspect of our lives, and how we might apply that to our relationships with AI.
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