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Emily Simons
@emsimons.bsky.social
Visiting Fulbright Student @ the AI for Data-Oriented Science Lab.

Lifelong learner. Chronically caffeinated champion of crosswords, comedy, and the Oxford comma. Human with humility. And avid alliteration adopter.
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Big graph, little compute?

In our #NeurIPS2025 paper we propose geometry-aware edge-contraction-based pooling methods for GNNs.

Our methods preserve graph structure, make interpretable pooling choices, and ensure robust performance at downstream tasks.

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November 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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#MachineLearning loves data. #Topology loves shape.
Let's bring them together!

👉The Euler Characteristic Transform (ECT) bridges both worlds, as I outline in a recent article in the Notices of the
@amermathsoc.bsky.social

Engage!

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July 22, 2025 at 8:16 AM
✨Excited to be at ICML 2025 to share our new evaluation framework for graph-learning datasets, work with @dataspider.bsky.social, @jeremy-wayland.bsky.social, @pseudomanifold.topology.rocks

Curious about who shall pass, and who shall not?🤔
Enjoy nods to LoTR?🧝‍♀️
Check out our blog and paper below!
July 17, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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New blog post on overcoming academic impostor syndrome. This arose from great discussions during our group retreat, and I decided to make it publicly available in the hope of providing some utility to #academia.

#AcademicSky #AcademicChatter

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Overcoming Academic Impostor Syndrome
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March 13, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Our AIDOS Lab website has been fully revamped, thanks to a massive team effort as part of a very fun retreat in #Bern:

aidos.group

Check out our research directions and some of the things we have been up to these days!

#Academia #MachineLearning
March 1, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Hi! 👋 Emily Simons here, Fulbright Student Researcher with the AIDOS Lab at #HelmholtzMunich.

Happy to be sharing my first contribution to AIDOS in this 🧵.

Say hiya to SCOTT, the perfect holiday (software) package🎁for the #curvature and #graph enthusiast in your life.

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December 19, 2024 at 1:58 PM