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Our Project "An AI Model of the Maternal Brain" is Awarded $1M Funding by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

We have been awarded $1M funding from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) to develop an AI model of the maternal brain, offering unprecedented insights into how the brain changes during pregnancy and motherhood.

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Nina Miolane Hosts with the Ann S. Bowers Women's Brain Health Initiative in New York

Our Principal Investigator, Nina Miolane, recently gave an engaging talk in New York City, hosted by the Ann S. Bowers Women's Brain Health Initiative and The Lower Eastside Girls Club. As a Co-Director of the WBHI AI Core, Dr. Miolane shared her insights on the AI digital twin of the maternal brain, contributing to the event's mission of advancing the study of women's brain health through deeply collaborative science.

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Nina Miolane Delivers Keynote Speech at CZI Imaging the Future

We are proud to share that Nina Miolane, PI of the Geometric Intelligence Lab, delivered a keynote speech at this year's CZI Imagine the Future event. Her presentation focused on critical issues of data disparity and the underrepresentation of women-specific health factors in published imaging research.

"Less than 0.5% percent of brain imaging articles published over the last 25 years consider health factors specific to women."

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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!

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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

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