🎉Congratulations to Guillermo Bernárdez Gil! Thrilled to share that our postdoc, Guille, has been awarded the 2026 Extraordinary Doctoral Award by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). Congrats, Guille, so proud to have you on our team👏 🔗https://tinyurl.com/43hbr9t3

🏆Congrats to Prof. Pradeep Sen and former PhD student Nima Kalantari who were just awarded the SIGGRAPH Test-of-Time Award for their 2015 paper that transformed computer graphics rendering! Read more here👇 tinyurl.com/mvh569zx @ucsbengineering.bsky.social @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social

Our review on superposition in AI & brains is published in @nature.com #Machine #Intelligence 🌐 Neural networks encode concepts in superposition. We can recover them in 3 steps: identifiability, compressed sensing, interpretability. W/ @david-klindt.bsky.social O'Neil Reizinger & Maurer 🌟

🏥Congratulations to ECE Prof. Ramtin Pedarsani's team on receiving a UC Noyce Initiative award to develop robust vision-language models for clinical applications — part of a $3.4M UC-wide research push for computational health and cybersecurity.🤖 🔗https://tinyurl.com/mm9jb8x

The Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering is launching METL — the Master of Engineering & Technology Leadership — the first fully online master's degree at UC Santa Barbara, built for working tech professionals around the world 🎓 @ucsbengineering.bsky.social @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social

Thank you to everyone who attended our Long Now Talk at The Interval with mathematician and machine learning researcher @ninamiolane.bsky.social and science historian Claire Isabel Webb of @berggruen.org. They explored the question of consciousness from an unexpected direction: geometry.

Super excited to announce that our paper, “When Machine Learning Gets Personal”, has been accepted to #ICLR2026! 🇧🇷 We propose a unified framework to reliably quantify how personalizing a model influences both prediction accuracy and explanation quality. arxiv.org/abs/2502.02786

It’s March, and high school seniors are facing a huge choice: Where to call home for the next 4 years? 🎓 At @ucsbengineering.bsky.social, we offer elite #engineering research in a coastal environment designed to keep you inspired. 🌴🌊 #collegedecisions #ECE #UCSB

🏆UCSB ranked #1 public university in the US for scientific impact, and 3rd in universities overall!🎓 Congratulations to all of our researchers who are leading the global conversation.🌐🧵 @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social @ucsbengineering.bsky.social @uofcalifornia.bsky.social

Thanks @insidehighered.com for publishing our OpEd w Annie K. Lamar #publicvoices of The Oped Project @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social ! 🤖Open source software & infra accelerates scientific discoveries by removing financial & technical barriers. It's about time we start treating it as a public good👇

Are you interested in ML for space/plasma physics? I'll be presenting “Graph-based Neural Space Weather Forecasting” this Saturday at the ML for physics workshop in San Diego @neuripsconf.bsky.social 🚀 📄 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2509.19605 💻 Code: github.com/fmihpc/space... #AI4Science #ML4PS

HerBrain on TIME BEST INVENTIONS OF THE YEAR! I am grateful for the opportunity to work on this project and for many interesting conversations while presenting this work. Want to learn more about how pregnancy/menstruation changes the brain? See our poster⬇️, or public talk⬇️

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Thanks @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social for highlighting our #TIMEBestInvention of the Year award! tinyurl.com/4939bxu5 This strengthens our commitment to innovating for women's brain health with @ai-ucsb.bsky.social & @bowers-wbhi.bsky.social 🧠

Thanks @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social for highlighting our #TIMEBestInvention of the Year award! tinyurl.com/4939bxu5 This strengthens our commitment to innovating for women's brain health with @ai-ucsb.bsky.social & @bowers-wbhi.bsky.social 🧠

Really enjoyed this recent interview on my work with the Dodgers and how the @geometric-intel.bsky.social lab prepared me for it! Thank you for having me UCSB⚾️ Check it out here science.ucsb.edu/news/geometr...

Thrilled to see these two papers by Simon Mataigne, co-authored with P.-A. Absil published this month 🤩 They connect deep mathematical theory to practical algorithms on the Stiefel manifold and the approximation of the Riemannian barycenter 🌐 Details & papers👇 @geometric-intel.bsky.social

I am recruiting PhD students for 2026!😃 You want to reveal the geometric signatures of natural and artificial intelligence, and understand computations in brains and AI? 🌐🧠🤖 Apply to the UCSB Geometric Intelligence Lab ✨ This is the view you'd have from... your desk🌴

🏆The 2025 Topological Deep Learning Challenge is officially live!🏆 Hosted by the TAGinDS Conference 2025 🚀 This year, push the boundaries of topological ML by “Expanding the Data Landscape” 💰 Win incredible prizes, including research internships at UCSB and EPFL, as well as up to $800 US in cash!

Delighted to announce TopoBench has been accepted to DMLR! It’s a modular library for Topological Deep Learning, built to provide reproducible, cross-domain benchmarks and accelerate research. GitHub: github.com/geometric-in... #AI #DeepLearning

GitHub - geometric-intelligence/TopoBench: TopoBench is a Python library designed to standardize benchmarking and accelerate research in Topological Deep Learning

TopoBench is a Python library designed to standardize benchmarking and accelerate research in Topological Deep Learning - geometric-intelligence/TopoBench

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We are recruiting postdocs @ai-ucsb.bsky.social ! With @haewonjeong.bsky.social Yao Qin You want to lead the future of AI4Science? Apply to UCSB Real AI For Science Initiative 🌟 Deadline: Sept 15, 2025. This is the view you'll have from... your desk! By @adelemyers.bsky.social

Interested in how geometric intelligence emerges in brains and machines? 🧠➗🤖 I joined Anita Okorie on Mind Over Matter to discuss geometric AI, brain complexity, and how neuroimaging can advance our understanding of neurodegenerative diseases. 🎧 Episode tinyurl.com/mryct7h9

Our illustrated guide to non-Euclidian ML is finally published! Check it out for ⭐️ gorgeous figures (with new additions!) on topology, algebra, and geometry in the field ⭐️ broken down tables for easy reading ⭐️ accessible text, additional refs, and more iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

📢 Call for Papers: NeurReps 2025 ‼️‼️‼️ 🧠 Submit your research on symmetry, geometry, and topology in artificial and biological neural networks. Two tracks: Proceedings (9 pages) and Extended Abstract (4 pages). Deadline: Aug 22, 2025. www.neurreps.org/call-for-pap...

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Can #AI become a true scientist? @ninamiolane.bsky.social explores how new technologies are reshaping scientific discovery, and why human expertise remains essential as we enter a new era of research powered by intelligent algorithms. 🧪‬ plos.io/4kZi0aB

The fifth era of science: Artificial scientific intelligence

Can AI become a true scientist? This Perspective explores how new technologies are reshaping scientific discovery, and why human expertise remains essential as we enter a new era of research powered b...

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🚨Higher-order combinatorial models in TDL are notoriously slow and resource-hungry. Can we do better? Introducing: 🚀 𝐇𝐎𝐏𝐒𝐄: A Scalable Higher-Order Positional and Structural Encoder for Combinatorial Representations 🚀 📝 arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2505.15405 🧵 (1/6)

Special thanks to the incredible Sarah Kushner @adelemyers.bsky.social Luis F. Pereira and Daniel Martín de Blas 🌟 They are bringing your twin brain to you! 🧠

Pregnancy &motherhood transform the brain in ways we're only beginning to understand🧠 Uncovering these changes w/ @susanacarmona.bsky.social @magdamartinezga.bsky.social @emilyjacobs.bsky.social @grotzinger.bsky.social Kaya Jordan & @cziscience.bsky.social's generous support! tinyurl.com/38jb7hm6

TopoTune is going to ICML 2025!🎉🇨🇦 Curious to try topological deep learning with your custom GNN or your specific dataset? We built this for you! Find out how to get started at geometric-intelligence.github.io/topotune/

Incredibly grateful to @cziscience.bsky.social for this second award supporting our work in AI for women’s brain health @bowers-wbhi.bsky.social !🌟 The WBHI advances healthcare for all by developing inclusive AI on multi-modal biomedical datasets that include phenotypes relevant to women's health.

The Ann S. Bowers Women's Brain Health Initiative@bowers-wbhi.bsky.social · last yr.

CZI 🤝 WBHI @cziscience.bsky.social

What a start to 2025!🎉 Our lab is honored to receive $1M from @cziscience.bsky.social @chanzuckerberg.bsky.social to study how motherhood shapes the brain, focusing on maternal mental health. @ninamiolane.bsky.social @susanacarmona.bsky.social @emilyjacobs.bsky.social @magdamartinezga.bsky.social

Nina Miolane@ninamiolane.bsky.social · 2y ago

Happy New Year🎉 Thrilled to start 2025 with $1M from @cziscience.bsky.social @chanzuckerberg.bsky.social to study the maternal brain using AI! Grateful for the chance to advance science for mothers worldwide 🧠 @emilyjacobs.bsky.social @susanacarmona.bsky.social @magdamartinezga.bsky.social