UCSB physics professors John Martinis and Michel Devoret have been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics. They were lauded for work that, according to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, "revealed quantum physics in action," affirming UCSB as the epicenter of quantum research.

Two more Nobel Prizes at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social , congratulations !!

The UC sets a new world record with 5 Nobel Prizes this year!

🏆The 2025 Topological Deep Learning Challenge is officially live!🏆
Hosted by the TAGinDS Conference 2025

🚀 This year, push the boundaries of topological ML by “Expanding the Data Landscape”

💰 Win incredible prizes, including research internships at UCSB and EPFL, as well as up to $800 US in cash!

GitHub - geometric-intelligence/TopoBench: TopoBench is a Python library designed to standardize benchmarking and accelerate research in Topological Deep Learning TopoBench is a Python library designed to standardize benchmarking and accelerate research in Topological Deep Learning - geometric-intelligence/TopoBench

Delighted to announce TopoBench has been accepted to DMLR! It’s a modular library for Topological Deep Learning, built to provide reproducible, cross-domain benchmarks and accelerate research. GitHub: github.com/geometric-in... #AI #DeepLearning

Discover our research:
ai.ece.ucsb.edu/publications

Apply: Send CV + coverletter
📩 to ai@ece.ucsb.edu
🕐 by Sept 15, 2025
to receive full consideration.

We hope to hear from you!
@ucsantabarbara.bsky.social @ucsb-cs.bsky.social @ucsbece.bsky.social @ucsbengineering.bsky.social

Our research is collaborative at heart:

We work with neuroscientists, physicists, and healthcare professionals to design principled AI that is tailored to data-scarce scientific fields.

You’ll join a vibrant AI community on the golden Californian coast @uofcalifornia.bsky.social 🌴

We are recruiting postdocs @ai-ucsb.bsky.social !
With @haewonjeong.bsky.social Yao Qin

You want to lead the future of AI4Science?

Apply to UCSB Real AI For Science Initiative 🌟
Deadline: Sept 15, 2025.

This is the view you'll have from... your desk!
By @adelemyers.bsky.social

From the lab to the airwaves 🎙️:

Our PI @ninamiolane.bsky.social joined Anita Okorie on Mind Over Matter for a fascinating conversation on geometric AI, brain complexity, and how neuroimaging is helping to understand neurodegenerative disease.

🎧 Listen here: tinyurl.com/mryct7h9

Interested in how geometric intelligence emerges in brains and machines? 🧠➗🤖

I joined Anita Okorie on Mind Over Matter to discuss geometric AI, brain complexity, and how neuroimaging can advance our understanding of neurodegenerative diseases.

🎧 Episode tinyurl.com/mryct7h9

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...

Many thanks to @mathildepapillon.bsky.social @naturecomputes.bsky.social J. Mathe @louisacornell.bsky.social @abbybertics.bsky.social D. Buracas H. Lillemark @christian-shewmake.bsky.social @fatihdinc.bsky.social X. Pennec for this collaboration !

In the 20th century, non-Euclidean geometry transformed how we model the world with pen and paper.

Now, it is disrupting how we model the world with machines.

Learn more in our illustrated guide to non-Euclidean ML and AI👇

The era of artificial scientific intelligence is here.

As algorithms generate discoveries at scale, what role remains for human scientists? 🤔

Thanks @plosbiology.org for publishing my perspective @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social @ai-ucsb.bsky.social @ucsbece.bsky.social @ucsb-cs.bsky.social 🌟

YouTube video by WiDS Worldwide WiDS Datathon 2025 Winners Panel Discussion

Watch the 2025 winners explain their solution predicting ADHD across sexes🧠:

📺 youtu.be/i6XdxAa9Bak

Thanks to Valerie Elliott Arianna Zuanazzi @amykooz.bsky.social
Maggie Demkin @bowers-wbhi.bsky.social @kaggle.com @childmindinstitute.bsky.social for organizing!

Congrats to all the participants!

Congrats to the winners of the 2025 Global Datathon on Women's Brain Health:

🥇 Manh Nguyen, Thu Nguyen -FPT University
🥈 Baixue Yao, Xiaoyue Zhang -Flagship Labs 84
🥉 Wei Lyu, Zhida Wang @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social (!)

selected from 1000+ participants around the globe! 🌐

@bowers-wbhi.bsky.social

Empirically we find that 𝐇𝐎𝐏𝐒𝐄 👀:

⚡Outperforms (speed and performance) GNNs in larger datasets (MANTRA)
🥇Achieves SOTA on Topological Tasks -- predicting Betti numbers 1 & 2 on MANTRA
📈 Is: faster, more accurate, scalable

(5/6)

At last Topological Neural Networks are fast🚀

HOPSE builds an encoder for combinatorial complexes, enabling topological deep learning (TDL) w/o the usual computational cost.

A major step forward for TDL!
@martinca.bsky.social @gbg141.bsky.social @marcomonga.bsky.social @levtelyatnikov.bsky.social

🚨Higher-order combinatorial models in TDL are notoriously slow and resource-hungry. Can we do better?

Introducing:
🚀 𝐇𝐎𝐏𝐒𝐄: A Scalable Higher-Order Positional and Structural Encoder for Combinatorial Representations 🚀

📝 arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2505.15405

🧵 (1/6)

Absolutely proud of this work! Huge thanks to @gbg141.bsky.social @ninamiolane.bsky.social @marcomonga.bsky.social — and of course @martinca.bsky.social, who drove the project, learned on the fly, and kept the enthusiasm high at every turn!

Come find me @gsp-workshop.bsky.social at MILA all week! Can’t wait to be back in Montreal connecting with the community🕸️
I’ll be speaking on purely graph-based (!) Topological Deep Learning first thing tomorrow at 9am. Let’s kick off this workshop in style🍩

Thank you Guillermo Bernárdez, @clabat9.bsky.social @ninamiolane.bsky.social
for making this work possible!
🏠 @geometric-intel.bsky.social @ucsb.bsky.social

🍩TopoTune takes any neural network as input and builds the most general TDL model to date, complete with permutation equivariance and unparalleled expressivity.

⚙️ Thanks to its implementation in TopoBench, defining and training these models only requires a few lines of code.

TopoTune is going to ICML 2025!🎉🇨🇦
Curious to try topological deep learning with your custom GNN or your specific dataset? We built this for you! Find out how to get started at geometric-intelligence.github.io/topotune/

Next-gen 3D transistors transform energy-efficient electronics Researchers propose 3D semiconductor architectures using 2D semiconductor materials for better performance and scalability

#UCSB researchers have unveiled advancements in 3D semiconductor technology.

“This breakthrough represents a major step toward the next generation of transistor technologies that can sustain the rapid progress of computing and artificial intelligence applications." news.ucsb.edu/2025/021805/...

A team of researchers, including UCSB chemical engineering professor Phillip Christopher and PhD student, Anika Jalil, have discovered a way to potentially reduce CO2 emissions and decrease the need for chlorine to produce this ubiquitous chemical, by adding nickel atoms to the silver catalyst.

Umesh Mishra headshot

Tyler Susko headshot

Congratulations to Umesh Mishra, dean of the College of Engineering and professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, and Tyler Susko, an associate teaching professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department, for receiving Innovation Awards from Pacific Coast Business Times! 🎉

Innovation Awards for UCSB Professors Umesh Mishra and Tyler Susko to receive awards tonight from the Pacific Coast Business Times.

Click here to read more: engineering.ucsb.edu/news/innovat...
#UCSB #COE #UCSBEngineers

Happy #ScienceAppreciationDay to those who celebrate (everyone should celebrate). Here’s what #UCSB researchers are working on:

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