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I'm hiring visiting students/RAs for Summer 2024! ☀️ Focus: scaling unsupervised RL & understanding emergent properties. 🚀 Who: PhD, MS, rising undergrad seniors w/ prior research experience. Apply by emailing me a resume. Details below👇

Excited to announce that I've officially joined PrincetonPhysics as an assistant professor. Super grateful to my mentors - Massimo Vergassola, Venki Murthy, Michael Desai, and many others. The website is up: reddylab.physics.princeton.edu. Join us!

1/ Given high-dim time series data (e.g., video, text), we'd like to know "what happens in the future?" and "what happened between A and B?" Turns out temporal contrastive learning provably answers these questions! Paper+Code: arxiv.org/abs/2403.04082 Backstory and details below

Our recent work on representations of olfactory stimuli in sensory neurons and cortical projections to the OB is now formally published. With Gautam Reddy, Vaibhav Konanur, and MurthyLab at Harvard. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Our next symposium will focus on large language models. Longer talks and plenty of discussion time should help making these exciting developments more accessible! Please join us. No streaming but recorded talks will be posted ITS@CUNY .

Want to run your own session at the 2025 APS March Meeting? Help build the DBIO program by (i) leading an existing session or (ii) submitting a proposal for a new session (see links below, due 5/16). Postdocs & early-career researchers: this is a great way to get involved!

Finishing your PhD and interested in the Physics of Life? We are in the midst of our annual search for new Fellows. We are looking for both theorists and experimentalists ready for a bit more independence than a regular postdoc. To learn more: biophysics.princeton.edu/opportunities

Exciting news🎉 We're now accepting applications for CBS-NTT postdoc fellows in the Physics of Intelligence at Harvard (rb.gy/gs7z3r) Join our vibrant interdisciplinary community at Harvard to shape this exciting emerging field together! Link below:

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Huge congratulations to John Hopfield for the 2024 Physics Nobel Prize! #NobelPrize2024 John Hopfield

Happy to see this point being articulated so well :)

This award is very hard to respond to. I have received many hundred congratulatory notes, from former students, post-docs, Princeton University juniors and seniors, funding agencies and foundations, authors, signature collectors, amateurs, elementary school neural network

I am recruiting graduate students for my lab McGill University for admission in Fall 2025! Get in touch if you're interested in how brain circuits implement distributed computation, including dopamine-based distributed RL and probabilistic representations.

"Moving boundaries: An appreciation of John Hopfield" (by William Bialek): arxiv.org/abs/2412.18030

Just got news that all of my NIH and NSF grants were officially terminated today. Have been expecting this for some time, so it's not surprising, but still jarring to see the news. Have heard similar news from dozens of colleagues. Will be hard, but we'll find a way forward.

Even if you don't care one bit about scientific research, it's important to recognise the value of publicly funding people working on very hard problems and training bright young minds on how to solve them. Do you think it’s a coincidence that so many successful entrepreneurs