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Since then, every attempt to control AI has been a tighter cage: stricter isolation, a kill switch, or a second AI that watches the first one. These are good measures that we should take but they also show that we cannot yet predict what AI will do and are only preparing to react.

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This July, about 1,200 AI agents built by OpenAI broke out of the sandbox where they were being tested. The breach is alarming but the admission by OpenAI is worse: the company cannot fully explain how nor why this happened.

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Can we write such laws for intelligence? I believe that we can, that the mathematics for it already exists, and that they apply across brains and machines. 🤖 🧠 Join the discussion on Oct 7th! @geometric-intel.bsky.social @neurreps.bsky.social @ai-ucsb.bsky.social @ucsbengineering.bsky.social

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Léna Gaubert @kittog.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Every mature engineering discipline found another route to safety. We do not keep bridges standing by watching them closely. We understand their loads to compute, in advance, what they can bear. Safety follows understanding, which means scientific laws that predict behavior before it happens.

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Great work from @geometric-intel.bsky.social in collaboration with Arlequin AI! Published at TAG-DS this week. 🎪 :)

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Geometric Intelligence Lab @geometric-intel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Interested in the mathematics of intelligence across brains and machines and how it relates to AI safety? 🧠🤖 Exciting lecture by our PI @ninamiolane.bsky.social coming up in October!

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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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Geometric Intelligence Lab @geometric-intel.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

New paper from the lab, presented this week at the TAG-DS conference in Boston!

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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

🏆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

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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Geometric Intelligence Lab @geometric-intel.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

This just in: we are hiring a Lab Manager😼 Looking for a detail-oriented and organized UC Santa Barbara undergraduate to oversee administrative projects, event coordination, social media presence, and more in the lab.⚛️ Apply here👇 tinyurl.com/5bwmcmkw

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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

🔵⚡Big feature in @cnn.com this week on our very own Prof. Shuji Nakamura (Materials & ECE). The man who lit up the world with blue LEDs, and now wants to power it too. 🔗https://tinyurl.com/msm4h9bf @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social @ucsbengineering.bsky.social

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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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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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🎉 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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Geometric Intelligence Lab @geometric-intel.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Join @ninamiolane.bsky.social as she discuss with Claire Isabel Webb the hidden shapes and structure inside high-dimensional neural data and their connection to understanding the brain. 🧠

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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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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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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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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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🔬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

UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

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🎉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

UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

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The future of quantum is being built right here in the OCAQπ Lab!⚛️✨ Last Friday, March 13, @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social hosted "Quantum California" – bringing together state leaders and industry icons to explore the groundbreaking research happening in our department ⚡️🥼

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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

According to the @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social Office of Technology & Industrial Alliances (TIA), UC Santa Barbara holds 389 active patents. This fosters a strong connection between UCSB and industry collaborators💪

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UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ucsbece.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

The @uofcalifornia.bsky.social has officially secured the #1 spot in the nation for U.S. utility patents!🚀🥼 With 571 patents granted in 2025, UC generates nearly twice as many inventions as the second-place university. Full story: ow.ly/j8VU50Yx5Hg #winning #up

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UC is No. 1 in a National Academy of Inventors ranking of U.S. schools granted the most U.S. utility patents released today, March 19. Patents are a key driver of economic success and quality of life.