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
If you are passionate about shaping the next generation of global tech leaders and want to run a program at the intersection of world-class research and professional excellence, we want to hear from you!
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Fall 2026: Specialized tracks in Semiconductor Technology & Technology Management.
Fall 2027: Quantum Information & AI for Science and Technology.
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
@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... !
🙌 To be sure, *some* companies are truly dedicated to open-source.
By generously sharing their resources, they have dramatically advanced science.
It's time universities do the same.
👩🔬 Science advances slowly, across decades.
Commercial tools, by contrast, advance quickly through mergers, pivots and quarterly earnings reports.
Tethering our infrastructure to private companies is like writing knowledge in disappearing ink.
💵 Without proper funding structures, essential research tools remain fragile, often maintained by overworked volunteers.
Universities must begin funding engineers at competitive salaries and recognizing software development as a legitimate form of scholarship.
👩💻 Universities are reluctant to fund software engineers at competitive salaries.
A skilled engineer can earn 5x more in industry than in academia, yet most grants deprioritize dedicated engineering roles.
🤔 Much of modern research rests on tools and platforms maintained not by universities or public institutions, but by corporations whose priorities can shift overnight.
Knowledge itself is being built on the shifting sand of corporate discretion.
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👇
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⬇️
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
The second paper called "On the Approximation of the Riemannian Barycenter" uses the bounds from the above article to compute approximations of the Riemannian barycenter at very low computational cost!
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
The first paper called "Bounds on the geodesic distances on the Stiefel manifold for a family of Riemannian metrics" studies the geometry of the Stiefel manifold to derive simple and insightful bounds on the computationally untractable geodesic distance.
sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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
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!
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.
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.
A huge thank you to our partners! 🤝
💰 Cash prizes are sponsored by the brilliant team at Arlequin AI.
🏛️ Internships are hosted by the world-class UC Santa Barbara @geometric-intel.bsky.social and EPFL IMOS labs.
🏆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!
We can’t wait to see what the community builds with TopoBench! Star our repo, read the paper, and bring reproducibility to your TDL research. Contributions and feedback are welcome! #OpenSource#Python#AcademicTwitter
At its core, TopoBench is a framework for robust and fair evaluation in TDL. We’re empowering researchers and practitioners to compare models with confidence and push the field forward, together.
Curious about topological liftings? TopoBench lets you experiment with them on your own data! We’ve included 20+ liftings from last year’s TDL Challenge @TAGinDS, @PyT_Team_. Explore them all in our Wiki: github.com/geometric-in...#TDA
Struggling with reproducible benchmarks in TDL? We’ve got you covered.
12+ models tested on 22+ diverse, cross-domain datasets. Tutorials to get you started with topology & higher-order homophily Webpage/Docs: geometric-intelligence.github.io/TopoBench/
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
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
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
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 🌴
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
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
Been waiting for this one😼! A beautiful, digestible guide to non-Euclidean ML — gorgeous visuals, clean tables, and clear explanations of topology, algebra, and geometry. Dive in 👇
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...
