At UCSB, Fatih is co-advised by ECE Professor @ninamiolane.bsky.social and KITP Professor Boris Shraiman. We're proud to have him in the #ECE community. Congratulations, Fatih! 👏 #AppliedMathematics #Neuroscience #NeuroAI #UCSB #ECE #SIAM

🎉 Congratulations to @fatihdinc.bsky.social, postdoc in UC Santa Barbara #ECE and the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, on winning the Richard C. DiPrima Prize from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). 🏆 🔗 Read the full story: lnkd.in/gd27SUAA

🧠 Can geometry give us a theory of neural computation? Claire Isabel Webb and I discussed how #geometry, the hidden shapes & structure inside high-dimensional neural data, can be a powerful tool to understand how the brain computes. @longnow.org @geometric-intel.bsky.social @ucsbece.bsky.social

The Long Now Foundation@longnow.org · 2mo ago

Could there be a universal geometry of intelligence? @ninamiolane.bsky.social proposes answers in her Long Now Talk with @berggruen.org's Claire Isabel Webb.

🏥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

🚀 Build fairer personalized ML! Our work introduces tools to evaluate trade-offs in accuracy, fairness & explanation quality. 📷Read “When ML Gets Personal” here: [http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.02786] @ninamiolane.bsky.social @gbg141.bsky.social

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

🏆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 @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 🧠

Moneyball 2.0! Discover how @mathildepapillon.bsky.social 's research is transforming AI for sports with the LA Dodgers! ⚾️ #ProudAdvisor @geometric-intel.bsky.social @ai-ucsb.bsky.social @ucsbengineering.bsky.social @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social @ucsbece.bsky.social @ucsb-cs.bsky.social

Mathilde Papillon@mathildepapillon.bsky.social · 8mo ago

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...

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⬇️

Nina Miolane@ninamiolane.bsky.social · 8mo ago

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🌴

We are ✨42✨ days away from the Topological Deep Learning Challenge deadline! Not sure where to start? Participating is as simple as implementing an existing graph dataset :) Win cash prizes up to 800$ USD graciously offered by #ArlequinAI or internships at UCSB and EPFL

Mathilde Papillon@mathildepapillon.bsky.social · 11mo ago

🏆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!

🏆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!

In the 20th century, non-Euclidean geometry transformed how we model the world with pen and paper. Now, it is disrupting how we model the world with machines. Learn more in our illustrated guide to non-Euclidean ML and AI👇

Mathilde Papillon@mathildepapillon.bsky.social · last yr.

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...

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...

Hi! Who is at ICML? Feel free to reach out:) Our poster session starts tomorrow at 11am E-3101

Mathilde Papillon@mathildepapillon.bsky.social · last yr.

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/

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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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

We are looking for reviewers to serve on the Program Committee of the Symmetry and Geometry in Neural Representations (NeurReps) workshop at NeurIPS 2025! If you are interested in participating, please fill out this form: forms.gle/wgUXHT7Mq71n... @neurreps.bsky.social

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/

Come find me @gsp-workshop.bsky.social at MILA all week! Can’t wait to be back in Montreal connecting with the community🕸️ I’ll be speaking on purely graph-based (!) Topological Deep Learning first thing tomorrow at 9am. Let’s kick off this workshop in style🍩

Graph Signal Processing Workshop 2025@gsp-workshop.bsky.social · 2y ago

We’re absolutely thrilled to have an exciting lineup of speakers this year covering a wide range of topics, including @pseudomanifold.topology.rocks @dom-beaini.bsky.social @mathildepapillon.bsky.social Dhananjay Bhaskar, Naoki Saito!

How can neural nets extract *interpretable* features from data—& uncover new science? 👉 Discover our mathematical framework tackling this question w/ identifiability theory, compressed sensing, interpretability & geometry!🌐 By @david-klindt.bsky.social @rpatrik96.bsky.social C. O'Neill H Maurer

David Klindt@david-klindt.bsky.social · last yr.

🔵 New paper! We explore sparse coding, superposition, and the Linear Representation Hypothesis (LRH) through identifiability theory, compressed sensing, and interpretability. If you’re curious about lifting neural reps out of superposition, this might interest you! 🤓 arxiv.org/abs/2503.01824

🔵 New paper! We explore sparse coding, superposition, and the Linear Representation Hypothesis (LRH) through identifiability theory, compressed sensing, and interpretability. If you’re curious about lifting neural reps out of superposition, this might interest you! 🤓 arxiv.org/abs/2503.01824

From superposition to sparse codes: interpretable representations in neural networks

Understanding how information is represented in neural networks is a fundamental challenge in both neuroscience and artificial intelligence. Despite their nonlinear architectures, recent evidence sugg...

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How does AI memorize information? How does ChatGPT remember your name? How do RNNs keep track of simple numbers? Our new paper led by Bariscan Kurtkaya & Fatih Dinc explores the geometry of short-term memory in neural networks—revealing limits in how information is stored!🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2502.17433

🤖 New Talk: Geometric Intelligence in Minds & Machines 🧠 Available on Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RtH... @louisacornelis.bsky.social & I opened the 2025 @neurreps.bsky.social Global Speaker Series ! Thanks @mathildepapillon.bsky.social Chase VDG @btolooshams.bsky.social for hosting!

Episode #7 | Nina Miolane & Louisa Cornelis

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Mathilde Papillon@mathildepapillon.bsky.social · last yr.

Thank you to everyone who showed up in person and online! Congrats to @ninamiolane.bsky.social and @louisacornelis.bsky.social for some stellar talks🤩

Thanks for hosting this Mathilde!

Mathilde Papillon@mathildepapillon.bsky.social · last yr.

Thank you to everyone who showed up in person and online! Congrats to @ninamiolane.bsky.social and @louisacornelis.bsky.social for some stellar talks🤩

Thank you to everyone who showed up in person and online! Congrats to @ninamiolane.bsky.social and @louisacornelis.bsky.social for some stellar talks🤩

Mathilde Papillon@mathildepapillon.bsky.social · last yr.

I am excited to host the next edition of the NeurReps Global Seminar Series, from @neurreps.bsky.social! @ninamiolane.bsky.social and @louisacornelis.bsky.social will be speaking on 🧠Geometric Intelligence in Minds and Machines🤖 📅Friday, Feb 21st, 11am PST Join us at UCSB (Elings,1605) or on Zoom!

Join us remotely or in person to hear from @ninamiolane.bsky.social and @louisacornelis.bsky.social on Geometric Intelligence in Minds and Mahcines. Thanks, @mathildepapillon.bsky.social, for hosting!

Symmetry and Geometry in Neural Representations@neurreps.bsky.social · last yr.

📢 NeurReps Speaker Series seminar is back! @ucsb.bsky.social is hosting us for a talk by @ninamiolane.bsky.social and @louisacornelis.bsky.social on Geometric Intelligence in Minds and Machines! 🧠 🗓️This Friday, February 21st, 11 AM PT Join in person at UCSB (Elings, 1605) or on Zoom!