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Mathilde Papillon Receives the Prestigious Postgraduate Doctoral Scholarship

Mathilde Papillon, Ph.D. in the Geometric Intelligence Lab, has been awarded Canada's prestigious Postgraduate Doctoral Scholarship. She will receive 3 years of funding to develop imaginative and useful Topological Deep Learning tools for human movement. 

This award recognizes her as a phenomenal graduate student and exceptional early career scientist!

Louisa Cornelis Receives the Prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP)

Louisa Cornelis, Ph.D. in the Geometric Intelligence Lab, has been awarded the prestigious NSF GRFP fellowship. She will receive 3 years of funding to develop novel cutting-edge methodology to analyze proteomics data for women’s brain health.

This award recognizes her as an outstanding graduate student & high-achieving early career scientist!

The Ann S. Bowers Women's Brain Health Initiative Launches in San Jose, CA

The UC Noyce launch of the Ann S. Bowers Women's Brain Health Initiative (WBHI) launched at The Tech Interactive in San Jose on November 16, 2023. World-class scientists from five University of California campuses, including researchers from the Geometric Intelligence Lab at UC Santa Barbara, united to share their cutting-edge research with the public. The director of the Geometric Intelligence Lab, Nina Miolane, was appointed as the director of the Artificial Intelligence branch of the WBHI.

Nina Miolane Receives the Prestigious NSF CAREER Award

Nina Miolane, PI of the Geometric Intelligence Lab, receives the NSF CAREER award, the most prestigious NSF award for early-career faculty to develop geometric methods for natural and artificial intelligence.

The Geometric Intelligence Lab Receives a 1.2M$ NSF Grant to Build Vision Systems that Exploit the Symmetries of the Visual World

Led by lab members Christian Shewmake and Sophia Sanborn, the Geometric Intelligence Lab (PI: Nina Miolane) receives a 1.2M$ NSF grant to build deep vision models capable of discove

Sophia Sanborn is on the TWIML AI Podcast with Sam Charrington

Sophia Sanborn, postdoctoral fellow in our Lab, is featured in the renowned TWIML AI Podcast with Sam Charrington.

Watch her discuss why deep networks and brains learn similar features here!

Our survey of topological neural networks is the most popular arxiv link!

Our literature review "Architectures of Topological Deep Learning: A Survey of Topological Neural Networks" was the most popular Arxiv link on April 22, 2023!

Congratulations to the authors Mathilde Papillon, Sophia Sanborn and Nina Miolane from our lab, as well as to our collaborator Mustafa Hajij.

Nina Miolane Awarded a Faculty Research Grant by the Academic Senate

Nina Miolane, PI of the Geometric Intelligence Lab, is recognized by UCSB Academic Senate for the scholarly excellence of the Lab!

This grant, provided by the chancellor, will allow the team to develop novel methodology that can reveal brain anatomical changes across important life events, e.g. through aging, menopause, among many others.