#cosyne23 tonight we're presenting RATS: Riemannian Alignment of Tangent Spaces, a bottom-up manifold learning method, and global distortion, a new evaluation measure to quantify quality of embeddings Come by for the cool neural manifolds

Neurotech Network Gal Mishne Gal Mishne 💔🇮🇱 is changing how we think about computation in the brain. Her lab @ UCSD advances theory & develops tools to interpret largescale, multi-area recording. By disentangling neural population activity, her work will build bridges between brain structure & function.

My friend (An Wu, Komiyama lab, UCSD, tiny little Asian girl with so much energy) who went to Cosyne (Montreal) was missing after the old Montreal fire. Shout out to any cosyne participants who might have seen her in the recent two days. #cosyne23 CosyneMeeting

Looking forward to Anqi Wu (@anqiwu.bsky.social) 's computational neuroscience tutorial at UCSD!

Join us next week at EnCORE Institute for a 4 hour tutorial with Anqi Wu (@anqiwu.bsky.social) on "Statistical machine learning models for neural and behavioral data analysis" May 22-23, 10am-12pm PDT Registration (in-person and zoom) is free here: eventbrite.com/e/encore-stati…

Lively Q&A with Anqi Wu (@anqiwu.bsky.social) at today's EnCORE data science + neuroscience tutorial For those who missed out today, join us tomorrow at 10am PDT!

Our posters at ICML Conference: Th @ session 5: Ya-Wei will present Hyperbolic Diffusion Embedding and Distance for Hierarchical Representation Learning openreview.net/pdf?id=MM2vSRQ… We combine diffusion and hyperbolic geometry to learn new hierarchical representations and distances #ICML23

Th @ session 6: Zhengchao will present The Numerical Stability of Hyperbolic Representation Learning openreview.net/pdf?id=grhjD5a… on theoretical analysis of numerical limitations in Poincare and Lorentz models and Euclidean parametrization without these + new hyperbolic SVM model

TAGinDS workshop: Jesse will present Product Manifold Learning with Independent Coordinate Selection openreview.net/pdf?id=GugzbdA… we learn factor manifold components from data lying on a product manifold

We can embed non-orientable manifolds in intrinsic dimensions with LDLE. UMAP/t-SNE are indeed bizarre on the Klein bottle Paper: jmlr.org/papers/v22/21-… Code: github.com/chiggum/pyLDLE2

We had a great time with Colors of the Brain scholars in our interactive tutorial on coding. Led by the one and only Saura Naderi

Out now in Cell! doi.org/10.1016/j.cell… Historically marginalized student representation drastically drops from undergrad to grad school. Are underrepresented students unqualified? Or are grad school admissions unnecessarily confusing, costly, & gatekeeping? 1/🧵

Join our info session for Rising Stars in Data Science on Wed Sep 6th at 12 pm PST Application (due 9/22/23):  uchicago.infoready4.com/#competitionDe… More details: datascience.uchicago.edu/research/postd… Data Science Institute Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute #postdoc #AcademicTwitter #DataScience

Don't miss the Rising Stars in Data Science Info Session! Wed Sep 6th at 12 pm PST Application (due 9/22/23):  uchicago.infoready4.com/#competitionDe… More details: datascience.uchicago.edu/research/postd… #postdoc #AcademicTwitter #DataScience

Applications to Rising Stars in Data science for early career researchers interested in academic and industry careers are due this Friday! datascience.uchicago.edu/research/postd… Jointly organized by Data Science Institute Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute and EnCORE

Vikash Gilja and Cindy Chestek kicking off our BMI workshop and hackathon on "Mapping Thought to Action" at Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute UCSD Engineering Supported by U.S. National Science Foundation (EFRI/BRAID)

Multiple postdoc positions available at the EnCORE Institute in all areas of theoretical foundations of data science. Apply by Jan 1st 2024 encore.ucsd.edu/job-opportunit… to work with EnCORE PIs Aaron Roth Hamed Hassani George Pappas Gal Mishne 💔🇮🇱 Kamalika Chaudhuri Arya Mazumdar Barna Saha and others

Apply now for Rising Stars in Data Science! We are hosting the event with Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute on Nov 14-15. Virtual info session on July 12 ucsd.zoom.us/meeting/regist… Applications due July 26 datascience.ucsd.edu/RISING-STARS-I…

Our posters @ #ICML2024 1) "Contextual Feature Selection with Conditional Stochastic Gates" - Tues July 23 End-to-end model for weighted feature selection conditioned on continuous and/or discrete context variables paper: openreview.net/pdf?id=E6Nm3x7… code: github.com/Mishne-Lab/Con…

2) "SiBBlInGS: Similarity-driven Building-Block Inference using Graphs across States" - Tues July 23 Similarity-constrained decomposition of multi-session sets of trials x.com/BaselessPursui… Paper: openreview.net/pdf?id=h8aTi32… code: github.com/NogaMudrik/SiB…