Sophia Sanborn

🚀 Thrilled to be at #NeurIPS2025

🧠 Doing NeuroAI: using AI to understand the brain

🎤 Catch my Sunday talk at @neurreps.bsky.social on interpreting the neural code

Interested in the🔬Enigma Project at Stanford?

Working with @andreastolias.bsky.social & @naturecomputes.bsky.social enigmaproject.ai

Our illustrated guide to non-Euclidian ML is finally published!
Check it out for
⭐️ gorgeous figures (with new additions!) on topology, algebra, and geometry in the field
⭐️ broken down tables for easy reading
⭐️ accessible text, additional refs, and more
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Enigma hiring Research Engineer: Multi-Modal Modeling in Stanford, CA | LinkedIn Posted 11:42:35 PM. The modeling team at Enigma is seeking ML Research Engineers to build and scale the next generation…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.

Join me, @andreastolias.bsky.social, and many of the incredible MICrONS team members in an AI-driven approach to neuroscience discovery

Apply here: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...

Or email us at recruiting@enigmaproject.ai

At enigmaproject.ai, we’re building upon these foundations in a new initiative to massively scale functional neural recordings—fusing them with multi-modal modeling, mechanistic interpretability, automated scientific discovery, and closed loop experimentation to decode the neural basis of perception

MICrONS represents a huge step forward for the field. Big-data and AI will drive the next wave of discoveries in neuroscience

Francis Crick called it “impossible” in 1979. Now it’s real.
A 1 mm cube of mouse brain, 200k cells, 500M synapses, all mapped alongside neuronal activity.

This new MICrONS dataset maps brain structure and function in a way that we've never seen🧪
🔗 www.microns-explorer.org
📄 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

🎉 Good news! The fun doesn’t stop after the first social! Join us for a joint party with @neurreps.bsky.social and NeuroAI. Don’t miss out—scan the QR code to register now! 🚀

RSVP to NEURREPS X UNIREPS X NEUROAI | Partiful NeurReps and Unireps post workshop social - drinks and pizza social in a secret loft in gastown Hosted by Enigma and New Theory https://enigmaproject.ai https://newtheory.ai

Excited to keep the conversation going at the NeurReps X UniReps X NeuroAI post-workshop social tn! partiful.com/e/0NoaoBepdm... @sharvaree.bsky.social @naturecomputes.bsky.social @christian-shewmake.bsky.social @unireps.bsky.social

RSVP to NEURREPS X UNIREPS X NEUROAI | Partiful NeurReps x Unireps x NeuroAI post workshop social - drinks and pizza social in a secret loft in gastown Hosted by Enigma and New Theory https://enigmaproject.ai https://newtheory.ai

Find us here tonight:

partiful.com/e/0NoaoBepdm...

NeurReps has begun! Join us today for a program combining geometry/topology, deep learning, neuroscience, and interpretability

@neuripsconf.bsky.social

All I have heard about Sophia's @naturecomputes.bsky.social project at Stanford sounded extremely exciting -- have a look if you are looking for a new opportunity!

I'm calling for a $1B-scale effort to transform our understanding of intelligence as profoundly as astronomical observatories transformed our understanding of the cosmos. We need a new kind of institution focused on scale, impact and financial sustainability. More here 2/14 bsky.app/profile/thet...

Enigma's at NeurIPS - come find us. New jobs posted on our website for research scientists & engineers in multi-modal modeling & interpretability

enigmaproject.ai

Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark gave a nice shoutout to our roadmap for NeuroAI safety in his newsletter. open.substack.com/pub/importai...

Ready for #NeurReps2024?

Our schedule at @neuripsconf.bsky.social
is out 📅
neurips.cc/virtual/2024...

Join us this Saturday! 🧠

With @eerosim.bsky.social @taliakonkle.bsky.social Stefanie Jegelka, Srinivas Turaga, Ilker Yildirim and Savannah Thais

Definitive white paper on neuroAI inspired AI safety!

Looking forward to NeurIPS next week. Who will I see there?

Visual Group Theory - YouTube This course contains over 40 videos from my undergraduate Abstract Algebra course (Math 4120) at Clemson University. I first taught it in 2010, using Nathan ...

May have shared this before elsewhere. But these are good -- are based off Nathan Carter's 'Visual Group Theory', and more or less cover the entire book: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Fun collaboration on program induction and hierarchical planning led by @cgcorrea.bsky.social in @cocoscilab.bsky.social now out in Cognition!

My paper on hierarchical plans is out in Cognition!🎉

tldr: We ask participants to generate hierarchical plans in a programming game. People prefer to reuse beyond what standard accounts predict, which we formalize as induction of a grammar over actions.

authors.elsevier.com/a/1kBQr2Hx2x...

A differential path towards AI safety, leveraging a new era of large-scale neuroscience research. New white paper from @patrickmineault.bsky.social and the Amaranth Foundation, with contributions from Enigma.

Different paths toward safe AI at different Marr's levels

Excited to release what we’ve been working on at Amaranth Foundation, our latest whitepaper, NeuroAI for AI safety! A detailed, ambitious roadmap for how neuroscience research can help build safer AI systems while accelerating both virtual neuroscience and neurotech. 1/N

This should be fun! I'll be sharing our recent literature review on all things geometric/topological/algebraic ML✨🍩

With @naturecomputes.bsky.social Johan Mathe, D. Buracas, H. Lillemark, C. Shewmake, @abbybertics.bsky.social , X. Pennec, and @ninamiolane.bsky.social

OK If we are moving to Bluesky I am rescuing my favourite ever twitter thread (Jan 2019).

The renamed:

Bluesky-sized history of neuroscience (biased by my interests)