The tutorial "Flow With What You Know" was just awarded "Best Blog Post" for ICLR 2025! cf. iclr-blogposts.github.io/2025/about/

Been musing on the geometry of disentangled representations & factorization: Doing it by construction seems like a limiting inductive bias. What if you just add a soft geometric constraint to the loss and let the latent space sort itself out? Easy and tunable. 1/3

I’m pleased to share that I've been selected as a Fellow of the 2026 Thinking About Thinking Program! I’m grateful to join a global, research-led ecosystem engaging thoughtfully with how AI is developed, governed, and understood. @geometric-intel.bsky.social @ai-ucsb.bsky.social

And my desk has an ocean view 💅

🏆 #UCSB ranks #1 in scientific impact among public universities (#3 overall)! Congratulations to our researchers! @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social @ucsbengineering.bsky.social @uofcalifornia.bsky.social

Exciting News! 🎓✨ Our new online professional master’s program—the Master of Engineering and Technology Leadership (METL)—is launching in Fall 2026: We Are Hiring its Executive Director! Join us in building the future of engineering @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social: lnkd.in/gbe5fhHU

We’re excited to kick off this year’s REAL AI Seminar Series! 🤖✨ Thrilled to start with @fatihdinc.bsky.social , thanks for joining us to launch the series. Dr. Fatih Dinc gave a wonderful talk on biological versus artificial neural networks 🤯 @ucsbece.bsky.social @geometric-intel.bsky.social

Love to see it from @fatihdinc.bsky.social 😼🐼 Looking forward to seeing future talks from @ai-ucsb.bsky.social @ucsbece.bsky.social

Exciting news from OCAQpi! Researchers @ucsbengineering.bsky.social @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social have advanced photonics with PZT-integrated SiN microcomb resonators. 🌟 Dive into this innovation: https://tinyurl.com/258gp9x4

@abbybertics.bsky.social s reports from campus about an education system in crisis, and asks what the future might look like as students begin to tap into a tool that can think quicker, write faster and teach better than many of their instructors. 🎙️Listen here: www.economist.com/podcasts/202... !

As students tap into #AI tools that can teach better than their instructors, what does the future of education look like? 👉 @abbybertics.bsky.social from our lab @geometric-intel.bsky.social explores this question for the #TheEconomist !

Thus far, engineering has outpaced theory in the science of intelligence. But Tomaso Poggio is hopeful that theories can catch up. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/brain-inspir...

Thrilled to share @ninamiolane.bsky.social 's OpEd in @insidehighered.com with Annie K. Lamar! Open-source software and scientific infrastructure fuel discovery by removing barriers – not creating them. Time to start treating open science as the public good it is🔬💡

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👇

This year I’ve been volunteering for The OpEd Project by helping writers from different backgrounds refine and place opinion pieces. They sent me a holiday gift! They didn’t need to. It’s been wonderful to work with these writers.

🔈 My first op-ed as a Public Voices Fellow on Technology in the Public Interest with The OpEd Project, out today, encourages health organizations to remember that AI is not the solution to every problem; instead, community priorities, not technology, should come first. 🔈

Thanks @thetransmitter.bsky.social for the feature! In our dementia work: 🧠 We predict cognitive decline by detecting early molecular signs. 🤖 We use LLM-augmented XAI to map key proteins to literature & accelerate biomarker discovery. @louisacornelis.bsky.social G Bernardez R Saloner K Casaletto

How are better tools and bigger datasets transforming the field? In a new special report, @thetransmitter.bsky.social explores the state of neuroscience and provides context on the field's focus, output, people and funding. Explore now: www.thetransmitter.org/state-of-neu...

Recently have been doing virtual reality experiments with mice in complex, open world environments. No linear tracks. No T-mazes. No simple gratings. No binary choices. No blocky, high contrast environments. Those are great for some experiments, but we want to focus on COMPLEX processing. (6/n)

Can your AI beat a mouse? This is happening Sunday! robustforaging.github.io NeurIPS workshop 11 to 2 California time on Zoom! @mbeyeler.bsky.social @sinzlab.bsky.social @ninamiolane.bsky.social @crisniell.bsky.social @mariusschneider.bsky.social J. Canzano, Y. Hou, J. Peng, et al. #NeurIPS2025

We are thrilled to announce our first invited talk this morning, featuring Prof. Rose Yu (@yuqirose.bsky.social) from UC San Diego, presenting “Fantastic Symmetries and Where to Find Them” at the UniReps workshop! 🎤✨

Arrived #NeurIPS2025 ☀️ If you're interested in the interplay of Geometry, Topology, Algebra w/ Neuroscience & AI, I'll give 2 talks on Sunday: 🌐11:30am: The Algebra of Spatial Navigation (Groups & grid cells) 🍩1:30pm: Topological Deep Learning (Complexes & Graphs) More👇

🔵🔴 Join us for the UniReps Workshop: Unifying Representations in Neural Models at @neuripsconf.bsky.social 2025! 📍 Ballroom 20D, San Diego Convention Center Dec 6 Don’t forget to fill out the participation form. Joining in person or remotely? We welcome your questions for the panel. 🔗 unireps.org

Join us on Monday, December 8, 2025 at 8am PST/11am EST as Dr. Rebecca Thurston, PhD, FAMBR, FSBSM Professor in the Department of Psychiatry @University of Pittsburgh presents “Menopause, Its Symptoms, and Implications for Women’s Heart and Brain Health.” Register at tinyurl.com/bowerswbhi-s...

To access past lectures, head to wbhi.ucsb.edu/about/events. We hope to see you there! @emilyjacobs.bsky.social @cerentozlu.bsky.social @amykooz.bsky.social @ninamiolane.bsky.social @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social @weillcornell.bsky.social @pittdeptofmed.bsky.social

A special thank you to @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social for the thoughtful article on HerBrain – capturing our mission and the importance of understanding how pregnancy shapes the brain 🧠 tinyurl.com/4939bxu5 #TIMEBestInventions #WomensBrainHealth @ai-ucsb.bsky.social @bowers-wbhi.bsky.social

Intersection of topics: super interesting research and one of the best feel-good movies of all time

We present graph-based neural surrogates that enable fast and uncertainty-aware emulation of global hybrid-Vlasov simulations via a probabilistic latent-variable model. Data + code are openly available, and compatible with advances happening in data-driven weather prediction!

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⬇️

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

Grateful to the organizing team: @mariusschneider.bsky.social, @jingpeng.bsky.social, Y Hou, L Herbelin, J Canzano, @spencerlaveresmith.bsky.social. 👏🙏🙌 Special thanks to MS, YH, JP for daily work behind the scenes (at the expense of their own research). The challenge would not exist without them!

Next: Join our NeurIPS workshop on Dec 7, 2025, 11 to 2 PT on Zoom! Hear from top competitors and our 3 keynote speakers: - @sinzlab.bsky.social - @ninamiolane.bsky.social - @crisniell.bsky.social More info: robustforaging.github.io/workshop #NeurIPS2025 #Neuroscience #AI

Thrilled to see HerBrain on #TIME Best Inventions of 2025! It shows how the anatomy of the brain changes week-by-week through pregnancy and postpartum 🧠 @geometric-intel.bsky.social @ai-ucsb.bsky.social @bowers-wbhi.bsky.social @neuromaternal.bsky.social !

🎥 The recording of the last @ellis.eu x UniReps speaker series session with Yilun Du and Sihyun Yu is now available on YouTube! Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=egYT...

Come see our lab's posters at #SfN2025! With great work including @alinatu.bsky.social @mjstarrett.bsky.social @aaronbornstein.bsky.social and more!

🔄 Updated Arxiv Paper Title: The ultimate upper bound on the injectivity radius of the Stiefel manifold Authors: P. -A. Absil, Simon Mataigne Read more: https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02079

Simon Mataigne, Ralf Zimmermann, Nina Miolane An efficient algorithm for the Riemannian logarithm on the Stiefel manifold for a family of Riemannian metrics https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.11730

Simon Mataigne, Kyle gallivan The eigenvalue decomposition of normal matrices by the decomposition of the skew-symmetric part with applications to orthogonal matrices https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.12421

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

🎥 The recording of the last ELLIS x UniReps session with @stefanofusi.bsky.social & @danielkunin.bsky.social is now available on YouTube! Watch here: youtu.be/t5FTQ3tthBA

Missed the last session? No worries, we’ve got you covered! 😎 Catch up anytime with the full playlist here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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🌴

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HerBrain, the first digital twin of the maternal brain, has been named one of TIME Magazine's Best Inventions of 2025! 👏 Led by @ninamiolane.bsky.social the HerBrain app illustrates how brain structures change across the pregnancy and postpartum periods, so a woman can predict her weekly shifts.

The UC sets a new world record with 5 Nobel Prizes this year!

Two more Nobel Prizes at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social , congratulations !!

👁️🧠 New preprint: We demonstrate the first data-driven neural control framework for a visual cortical implant in a blind human! TL;DR Deep learning lets us synthesize efficient stimulation patterns that reliably evoke percepts, outperforming conventional calibration. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...