We are excited to share that Dr. Branden Ingram has been announced as the runner up for the Thamsanqa Kambule Doctoral Award at this year's Deep Learning Indaba! In 1978 Prof. Kambule became the first black professor at Wits and his impact still echos through the university.(1/3)

Meet Flora, newest member to Team Green.Originally from Cameroon,Flora holds a BA in Mathematics,a MS in Computer Science & a PhD from Cambridge focused on 3D data.She co-founded & exited a startup with her brother.Yesterday,she presented our course on RAG. #indaba2024

🚀 Exciting News! Our RAIL Lab team has been helping organize and will be speaking at the ICRA@40 Africa satellite conference! Don't miss out on cutting-edge discussions in robotics and AI. Tune in to the live stream to catch all the action! youtube.com/@ICRAat40Africa (1/3)

‼️Watch LIVE as we Launch The Wits MIND Institute‼️ Join us for the official launch of The Wits Machine Intelligence and Neural Discovery Institute (The Wits MIND Institute), Africa’s cutting-edge hub for interdisciplinary AI research! 🌍✨ Discover how we are pushing the

Congratulations to Benjamin Rosman, a CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar, who will serve as the inaugural director of Wits University's new Machine Intelligence and Neural Discovery (MIND) Institute!

I'm excited to announce that I have received the Thuthuka Research Grant from the National Research Foundation of South Africa! I will use this grant to start my own lab focused on comp neuro and ML theory at Wits University: the Cognition, Adaptation and Learning (CAandL) Lab! This is a joint effort with Victoria Williams, Stefano Sarao Mannelli and Geraud Nangue Tasse.

Our paper, “Make Haste Slowly: A Theory of Emergent Structured Mixed Selectivity in Feature Learning ReLU Networks” will be presented at ICLR 2025 this week (openreview.net/forum?id=27SSn…)! We derive closed-form dynamics for some, remarkably linear, feature learning ReLU networks (1/9)

Great news! This work has also been accepted into RLC for the Journal to Conference Track. Congrats Geraud Nangue Tasse and teams for the great result 🦾