#UCSB researchers found that exposure to hot, humid conditions during pregnancy is more dangerous than high temperatures alone 🌡️ This heat stress can even induce premature labor. Full story: https://ow.ly/ZHWq50XSff1

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

Exciting announcement ✨ Our work on brain-inspired AI computing, led by PhD student Boxun Xu and Prof. Peng Li, received ICCAD William J. McCalla Best Paper Award nominations in 2024 and 2025. Joint work with Georgia Tech and USC! #UCSB #ICCAD2024 #ICCAD2025 #EfficientAI

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👇

Huge thanks to S. Kushner L. Pereira @adelemyers.bsky.social @louisacornelis.bsky.social L. Pritschet Sheila S. D. Martin de Blas H. Grotzinger I. Stelzer L. Chrastil K. Casaletto K. Jordan @susanacarmona.bsky.social @magdamartinezga.bsky.social @emilyjacobs.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 🧠

Congrats to Sarah Kushner Luís F. Pereira @adelemyers.bsky.social @louisacornelis.bsky.social Laura Pritschet Sheila S. Daniel Martin de Blas Hannah Grotzinger Ina Stelzer Liz Chrastil Kaitlin Casaletto Kaya Jordan @susanacarmona.bsky.social @magdamartinezga.bsky.social @emilyjacobs.bsky.social 🧠

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 !

Rumor has it Mother Nature might be the best AI engineer🌱💡 Come see why at Brass Bear Brewing, Nov 13 @ 6pm. With Dr. Fatih Dinc, we’ll dive into how brains, bots, and biology compute with intelligence

#UCSB research has a direct impact on your life through advancements in health, disaster management strategies & much more 🧬 From the local level to the global stage, research conducted on our campus is helping improve the present & secure the future 👉 https://ow.ly/HRZB50XgZUI

Details on our research and how to apply to our lab are on our website: gi.ece.ucsb.xn--edu-v113b @uofcalifornia.bsky.social @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social @ucsbece.bsky.social @ucsb-cs.bsky.social

Materials assistant professor Daniel Oropeza has been recognized with the 2025 Young Investigator Award from the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE), the nation’s largest association supporting Hispanics in STEM.👏 Click here to read more: engineering.ucsb.edu/news/materia...

Details on our research and how to apply to our lab are on our website: gi.ece.ucsb.edu. We hope to hear from you! 👋 @uofcalifornia.bsky.social @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social @ucsbece.bsky.social @ucsb-cs.bsky.social @geometric-intel.bsky.social

From your desk you'll see dolphins, beach volleyball courts, surf spots & more importantly: your colleagues! @adelemyers.bsky.social @mathildepapillon.bsky.social @franciscoacosta.bsky.social @louisacornelis.bsky.social @abbybertics.bsky.social @bariskurtkaya.bsky.social and gi.ece.ucsb.edu/people

You are specifically interested in AI? 👉 Look at the AI Curriculum from the UCSB Real AI Initiative offered within the CS and the ECE departments. ai.ece.ucsb.edu/ai-ucsb @ai-ucsb.bsky.social @ucsbece.bsky.social @ucsb-cs.bsky.social @ucsbengineering.bsky.social

We are physicists, neuroscientists, mathematicians and computer scientists who study intelligence in biological and artificial neural networks and use our findings to build better AI models. 👉 You can join us via UCSB ECE, CS, Math or DYNS PhD programs!

The campus crowd when you win the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics 🏆 #UCSB

Congratulations to John Clarke, Michel Devoret, and John Martinis on winning the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for their groundbreaking work in quantum mechanics! Their discoveries drive the frontiers of technology, and I’m proud that UCSB and California are leading the way.

Thrilled to celebrate UCSB physics professors John Martinis and Michel Devoret winning the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics 🏆

Meanwhile, on campus @ucsantabarbara.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🌴

UCSB physics professors John Martinis and Michel Devoret have been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics. They were lauded for work that, according to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, "revealed quantum physics in action," affirming UCSB as the epicenter of quantum research.

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

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

🏆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

Discover our research: ai.ece.ucsb.edu/publications Apply: Send CV + coverletter 📩 to [email protected] 🕐 by Sept 15, 2025 to receive full consideration. We hope to hear from you! @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social @ucsb-cs.bsky.social @ucsbece.bsky.social @ucsbengineering.bsky.social

Our research is collaborative at heart: We work with neuroscientists, physicists, and healthcare professionals to design principled AI that is tailored to data-scarce scientific fields. You’ll join a vibrant AI community on the golden Californian coast @uofcalifornia.bsky.social 🌴

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

From the lab to the airwaves 🎙️: Our PI @ninamiolane.bsky.social joined Anita Okorie on Mind Over Matter for a fascinating conversation on geometric AI, brain complexity, and how neuroimaging is helping to understand neurodegenerative disease. 🎧 Listen here: tinyurl.com/mryct7h9

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...

Many thanks to @mathildepapillon.bsky.social @naturecomputes.bsky.social J. Mathe @louisacornell.bsky.social @abbybertics.bsky.social D. Buracas H. Lillemark @christian-shewmake.bsky.social @fatihdinc.bsky.social X. Pennec for this collaboration !

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👇

The era of artificial scientific intelligence is here. As algorithms generate discoveries at scale, what role remains for human scientists? 🤔 Thanks @plosbiology.org for publishing my perspective @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social @ai-ucsb.bsky.social @ucsbece.bsky.social @ucsb-cs.bsky.social 🌟

Watch the 2025 winners explain their solution predicting ADHD across sexes🧠: 📺 youtu.be/i6XdxAa9Bak Thanks to Valerie Elliott Arianna Zuanazzi @amykooz.bsky.social Maggie Demkin @bowers-wbhi.bsky.social @kaggle.com @childmindinstitute.bsky.social for organizing! Congrats to all the participants!

Congrats to the winners of the 2025 Global Datathon on Women's Brain Health: 🥇 Manh Nguyen, Thu Nguyen -FPT University 🥈 Baixue Yao, Xiaoyue Zhang -Flagship Labs 84 🥉 Wei Lyu, Zhida Wang @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social (!) selected from 1000+ participants around the globe! 🌐 @bowers-wbhi.bsky.social

Empirically we find that 𝐇𝐎𝐏𝐒𝐄 👀: ⚡Outperforms (speed and performance) GNNs in larger datasets (MANTRA) 🥇Achieves SOTA on Topological Tasks -- predicting Betti numbers 1 & 2 on MANTRA 📈 Is: faster, more accurate, scalable (5/6)

At last Topological Neural Networks are fast🚀 HOPSE builds an encoder for combinatorial complexes, enabling topological deep learning (TDL) w/o the usual computational cost. A major step forward for TDL! @martinca.bsky.social @gbg141.bsky.social @marcomonga.bsky.social @levtelyatnikov.bsky.social

🚨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)

Absolutely proud of this work! Huge thanks to @gbg141.bsky.social @ninamiolane.bsky.social @marcomonga.bsky.social — and of course @martinca.bsky.social, who drove the project, learned on the fly, and kept the enthusiasm high at every turn!

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🍩

Thank you Guillermo Bernárdez, @clabat9.bsky.social @ninamiolane.bsky.social for making this work possible! 🏠 @geometric-intel.bsky.social @ucsb.bsky.social

🍩TopoTune takes any neural network as input and builds the most general TDL model to date, complete with permutation equivariance and unparalleled expressivity. ⚙️ Thanks to its implementation in TopoBench, defining and training these models only requires a few lines of code.

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/

#UCSB researchers have unveiled advancements in 3D semiconductor technology. “This breakthrough represents a major step toward the next generation of transistor technologies that can sustain the rapid progress of computing and artificial intelligence applications." news.ucsb.edu/2025/021805/...

A team of researchers, including UCSB chemical engineering professor Phillip Christopher and PhD student, Anika Jalil, have discovered a way to potentially reduce CO2 emissions and decrease the need for chlorine to produce this ubiquitous chemical, by adding nickel atoms to the silver catalyst.

Congratulations to Umesh Mishra, dean of the College of Engineering and professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, and Tyler Susko, an associate teaching professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department, for receiving Innovation Awards from Pacific Coast Business Times! 🎉

Click here to read more: engineering.ucsb.edu/news/innovat... #UCSB #COE #UCSBEngineers

Happy #ScienceAppreciationDay to those who celebrate (everyone should celebrate). Here’s what #UCSB researchers are working on: