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ai-ucsb.bsky.social @ai-ucsb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Thank you @goodfire.bsky.social l for supporting cutting edge #AI research @ucsbece.bsky.social @ucsbengineering.bsky.social !
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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It’s the start of Fall quarter and our graduate students are returning to campus! 🔬💡 See what they have to say about where a PhD at UCSB ECE can take you. 🚀 🎥 Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPOK... @ucsbengineering.bsky.social @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social
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The Electrical and Computer Engineering PhD Experience at UC Santa Barbara: Where Ideas Connect
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ai-ucsb.bsky.social @ai-ucsb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Don't miss this fascinating lecture by our co-director @ninamiolane.bsky.social
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Nina Miolane @ninamiolane.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Paper: openreview.net/pdf?id=kzYsv... Repo: github.com/geometric-in...
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Nina Miolane @ninamiolane.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
With @mathildepapillon.bsky.social Guillermo Bernárdez Gil Alvaro Ballon Barreiro Marco Montagna Rémi Devaux Antoine JARDIN published this week at the #TAG-GS conference as a result from a exceptional collaboration between Arlequin AI & @geometric-intel.bsky.social at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social ✨
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Nina Miolane @ninamiolane.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
AI researchers should do exploratory data analysis (PCA, etc) before building models or running interpretability pipelines. But what does EDA look like for data on topological domains? What's PCA for a combinatorial complex? Discover #TopoExplorer!🍩
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Geometric Intelligence Lab @geometric-intel.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
This award reflects Guillermo's dedication and rigor throughout his PhD, as well as the impact of his research. Well-deserved recognition for years of hard work! Thesis supervised by Pere Barlet Ros and Alberto Cabellos Aparicio.🎓
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Geometric Intelligence Lab @geometric-intel.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
This is one of the university's highest distinctions for doctoral theses, recognizing outstanding scientific and technical contributions.📓
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Geometric Intelligence Lab @geometric-intel.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
🎉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
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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Huge congrats to the team. Nima is now an Associate Professor at Texas A&M, and Steve Bako is at Aurora Innovation. Proud to see our research community shaping the future of graphics, 10+ years on!🎓🖥️
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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
It was the first ML approach to Monte Carlo denoising and the ideas still power nearly every modern denoiser today. This is what the SIGGRAPH 2026 Test-of-Time Award honors: research whose impact only grows with age. 🕰️
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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Before their paper, realistic Monte Carlo rendering meant noisy images unless you waited for more samples.⌛️Sen, Kalantari, Steve Bako had a better idea: train a neural network to filter the noise using extra info renderers already produce (albedo, normals, depth).🧠✨
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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
🏆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
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Nina Miolane @ninamiolane.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s42... @geometric-intel.bsky.social @neurreps.bsky.social @ai-ucsb.bsky.social @ucsbece.bsky.social @ucsbengineering.bsky.social
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A unifying framework from neural superposition to sparse interpretable codes - Nature Machine Intelligence
Kindt et al. present a unifying framework for superposition in neural networks. Their three-step approach clarifies how latent features can be identified, disentangled and assessed.
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Nina Miolane @ninamiolane.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The concept of superposition has motivated over three decades of work across different communities. It states that neural networks encode features by overlaying multiple concepts ('elephant', 'ball', 'pink') linearly within the same set of neurons. We ask: how can we recover these concepts?
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Nina Miolane @ninamiolane.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
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 🌟
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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
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
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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
His work delivers algorithms that pull clean signals out of terabytes of messy brain-imaging data, along with mathematical frameworks that explain how stable thoughts and behaviors emerge from the seemingly chaotic activity of millions of neurons. 🧠
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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Awarded every two years to *one* outstanding early-career researcher *worldwide*, the DiPrima Prize recognizes Fatih's research building a bridge between mathematics and neuroscience.🌉
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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
🎉 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
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Nina Miolane @ninamiolane.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Can geometry help explain how neuronal signals create consciousness?🤔🌐 Loved diving into this question w/ the brilliant Claire Webb from the @berggruen.org thanks to the @longnow.org foundation ! Watch our conversation here ⬇️ @geometric-intel.bsky.social @ucsbece.bsky.social @ai-ucsb.bsky.social
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The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org · 27/05/2026
Watch the full episode here: youtu.be/IUlBwKinaTk
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Claire Isabel Webb & Nina Miolane | The Geometry of Consciousness
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The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org · 27/05/2026
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.
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The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org · 05/06/2026
What an incredible season of Long Now Talks! We heard from @ninamiolane.bsky.social on the geometry of consciousness, @ericries.bsky.social on incorruptibility, @bayoakomolafe.bsky.social on new time paradigms, @indyjohar.bsky.social on planetary consciousness + more
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Nina Miolane @ninamiolane.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
🧠 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
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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
This award, supported by ICMBE2026, recognizes exceptional contributions to molecular beam epitaxy by researchers under 40. Prof. Ahmadi is a deserving honoree and we couldn't be prouder. 💛💙 #UCSB #MBE #WideBandgap #PowerElectronics #QuantumDevices #MaterialsScience
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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
🏆Congratulations to Prof. Elaheh Ahmadi, recipient of the 2026 Young Investigator MBE Award from the International MBE Advisory Committee! Her research on novel ultra wide bandgap devices is pushing the boundaries of high power, high frequency, and quantum applications.🔬⚡
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Daniel Holmberg @dholmberg.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
• Lastly, animation of an extra long sea ice concentration rollout over the spring of 2024 for the Baltic Sea, with reanalysis atmospheric forcing. The regional model remains surprisingly stable while only trained with 2 autoregressive steps.
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Daniel Holmberg @dholmberg.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
• Sea ice is predicted alongside other physical state variables. Smooth invertible activation functions together with a binary density channel keep ice variables within realistic bounds.
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Daniel Holmberg @dholmberg.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
• K-means cluster meshes. Latitude weighted spherical K-means produces a mesh that conforms better to ocean grids by construction compared to previously used quadrilateral or icosahedral meshes.
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Daniel Holmberg @dholmberg.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
• Latent-variable graph neural network. A per-step Gaussian latent on the coarsest mesh level injects stochasticity into a hierarchical encode-process-decode backbone. The model only requires one forward pass per ensemble member.
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Daniel Holmberg @dholmberg.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
• Njord is trained globally at 0.25° and on the Baltic Sea at 2km resolution. In the regional setting Njord conditions on boundary data from an independent global ocean model, where previous emulators either lack boundary forcing or depend on the very system they aim to replace.
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Daniel Holmberg @dholmberg.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
The ocean is inherently chaotic, yet existing data-driven ocean models produce deterministic forecasts. In our new preprint, we introduce Njord, a probabilistic graph neural network for ensemble ocean forecasting. Link: arxiv.org/abs/2605.15470 A couple highlights below 🧵
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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
🏥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
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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
This paper was published last week in Optica, and spin-out company Pacific Optica is now bringing this tech to labs worldwide.🌎 @ucsbengineering.bsky.social @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social
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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
"…we want to see hundreds of neurons, thousands of neurons, with the ultimate goal of being able to look at how individual neurons work together across the entire brain." – Postdoc Che-Hang Yu
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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
🔬How do you study thousands of neurons at once? You build better tools. ECE Prof. Spencer Smith's SLAB Lab designed a scan angle multiplier that achieves the laser scanning trifecta: high speed, high resolution, and a larger area.🧠⚡ 📜https://tinyurl.com/36j7pa3d
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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Selected from nearly 14,000 applicants, the GRFP provides $159,000 in support over five years. A well-earned honor!👏 We can't wait to see where your PhD journey takes you!🎓
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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Roland investigates kagome superconductors for quantum sensing applications, including RF detection in quantum computers.⚛️🔬 "Receiving the NSF GRFP is both exciting and deeply validating…it affirms that I have the potential to grow into an independent researcher" – Roland Yin
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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
🎉Congrats to ECE undergraduate Roland Yin on receiving the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship — one of the most prestigious honors in STEM!🏆 @ucsbengineering.bsky.social @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social 🔗https://tinyurl.com/63h5hvfz
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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
His work on high-speed integrated circuits & III-V CMOS architectures is pushing the limits of next-gen wireless, photonics, and satellite communications.🛰️ He also co-founded PseudolithIC to bring these innovations to market, turning UCSB research into real-world impact.💡
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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
🎉 Congratulations to ECE Professor James Buckwalter on being inducted as a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors!🏆 @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social @ucsbengineering.bsky.social 🔗 tinyurl.com/ubk93ahf
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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
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
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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Proud of our faculty, students, and the culture of excellence they've built. Go Gauchos! 💙💛 #UCSB
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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
As Dean Umesh Mishra puts it: "These results affirm what we see every day at UC Santa Barbara: research that is not only prolific and impactful, but profoundly influential" 🗣️ Read more below👇🔗 bit.ly/4kAsRZF
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Making an Impact: UCSB Remains Among the World’s Most Influential Research Universities | The Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering - UC Santa Barbara
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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Across Engineering and Physical Sciences, our numbers are staggering: Top 1%: #1 U.S. Public (#7 Worldwide)🥇 Top 10%: #1 U.S. Public (#11 Worldwide)🥇 Top 50%: #1 U.S. Public (#14 Worldwide)🥇 Consistency is our baseline. 🌊🔬
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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
The CWTS Leiden Rankings measure how often research is cited by other scientists. In the "Top 1%" category (the most elite tier), UCSB ranks #3 in the U.S. overall, trailing only MIT and Harvard.📈✨
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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
🏆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
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ai-ucsb.bsky.social @ai-ucsb.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
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
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