Sylvain Baillet is a Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science at McGill University. He holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Neural Dynamics of Brain Systems. In 2019, he was appointed Associate Dean, Research of the Faculty of Medicine. In 2011 he became the founding director of the Magnetoencephalography Brain Imaging core unit (MEG) at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital (The Neuro).  Dr. Baillet was Acting Director of The Neuro’s McConnell Brain Imaging Centre from 2013 to 2017. He currently chairs The Neuro’s Open-Science Grassroots Initiatives Committee. 
Dr. Baillet’s research focuses on the development of brain imaging methods and quantitative electrophysiology, with an emphasis on MEG, an imaging tool used to map brain activity at the millisecond scale. Primary applications of his research are in systems, cognitive and clinical neuroscience, with an emphasis on the mechanisms of information integration in brain networks, related to complex behavior and symptoms. A co-author of 300 publications, Dr. Baillet is also committed to the promotion of Open Science practices and the development and dissemination of open-source applications for data analytics and data repositories. He co-founded the Brainstorm software project for multimodal brain electrophysiology and imaging, which grew to a community of 25,300 users worldwide. In 2015 he led a Quebec Bioimaging Network strategic initiative to create the Open MEG Archives (OMEGA), the world’s first open-access repository of MEG data.