I joined the Computational Neuroscience Research Group (CNRG) at the University of Waterloo in September 2024, and earned an MMath in Computer Science in August 2026.
Prior to that, I earned a BSc in Computer Engineering at the University of Alberta in April 2024.
I am broadly interested in how humans reason effectively and efficiently.
My masters thesis research primarily concerned the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus for Artificial General Intelligence (ARC-AGI), an extremely difficult—and largely unsaturated—benchmark that tests fluid rather than crystalline intelligence.
In addition to my masters thesis, I published multiple papers on this topic, including one that won a paper award in the ARC Prize 2025 Competition.
Publications
Theses
Conference and Workshop Papers
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Isaac Joffe,
Chris Eliasmith
(2026)
A Biologically Plausible Model of Mental Multiplication.
In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, volume 48, 60–67.
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External link
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Isaac Joffe,
Chris Eliasmith
(2026)
Neurosymbolic Program Synthesis for the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus using Vector Symbolic Algebras.
In Proceedings of The 20th International Conference on Neurosymbolic Learning and Reasoning. To appear.
Abstract
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Isaac Joffe,
Chris Eliasmith
(2025)
A Biologically Plausible Model of Mental Multiplication.
In Sixth International Conference on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and AI.
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Poster
Technical Reports and Preprints