Richard Gao
@rdgao.bsky.social
W1 (Assistant) Professor of CS & Math at Goethe University Frankfurt.
AI x neuroscience.
🌊 https://www.gao-unit.com/
AI x neuroscience.
🌊 https://www.gao-unit.com/
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Richard Gao
@rdgao.bsky.social
· Dec 3
Finally got the job ad—looking for 2 PhD students to start spring next year:
www.gao-unit.com/join-us/
If comp neuro, ML, and AI4Neuro is your thing, or you just nerd out over brain recordings, apply!
I'm at neurips. DM me here / on the conference app or email if you want to meet 🏖️🌮
www.gao-unit.com/join-us/
If comp neuro, ML, and AI4Neuro is your thing, or you just nerd out over brain recordings, apply!
I'm at neurips. DM me here / on the conference app or email if you want to meet 🏖️🌮
I'm starting to think the argument between low vs. high dimensional neural activity literally just comes from plotting the PCs in linear vs. log y-scale
December 12, 2025 at 8:55 AM
I'm starting to think the argument between low vs. high dimensional neural activity literally just comes from plotting the PCs in linear vs. log y-scale
I think this by definition makes it the best workshop at neurips
We are over the moon to be joined by so many engaging colleagues across neuro, cog sci, and machine learning, including Terry Sejnowski! #NeurIPS2025
December 7, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I think this by definition makes it the best workshop at neurips
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Thrilled to start 2026 as faculty in Psych & CS
@ualberta.bsky.social + Amii.ca Fellow! 🥳 Recruiting students to develop theories of cognition in natural & artificial systems 🤖💭🧠. Find me at #NeurIPS2025 workshops (speaking coginterp.github.io/neurips2025 & organising @dataonbrainmind.bsky.social)
@ualberta.bsky.social + Amii.ca Fellow! 🥳 Recruiting students to develop theories of cognition in natural & artificial systems 🤖💭🧠. Find me at #NeurIPS2025 workshops (speaking coginterp.github.io/neurips2025 & organising @dataonbrainmind.bsky.social)
December 6, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Thrilled to start 2026 as faculty in Psych & CS
@ualberta.bsky.social + Amii.ca Fellow! 🥳 Recruiting students to develop theories of cognition in natural & artificial systems 🤖💭🧠. Find me at #NeurIPS2025 workshops (speaking coginterp.github.io/neurips2025 & organising @dataonbrainmind.bsky.social)
@ualberta.bsky.social + Amii.ca Fellow! 🥳 Recruiting students to develop theories of cognition in natural & artificial systems 🤖💭🧠. Find me at #NeurIPS2025 workshops (speaking coginterp.github.io/neurips2025 & organising @dataonbrainmind.bsky.social)
Finally got the job ad—looking for 2 PhD students to start spring next year:
www.gao-unit.com/join-us/
If comp neuro, ML, and AI4Neuro is your thing, or you just nerd out over brain recordings, apply!
I'm at neurips. DM me here / on the conference app or email if you want to meet 🏖️🌮
www.gao-unit.com/join-us/
If comp neuro, ML, and AI4Neuro is your thing, or you just nerd out over brain recordings, apply!
I'm at neurips. DM me here / on the conference app or email if you want to meet 🏖️🌮
December 3, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Finally got the job ad—looking for 2 PhD students to start spring next year:
www.gao-unit.com/join-us/
If comp neuro, ML, and AI4Neuro is your thing, or you just nerd out over brain recordings, apply!
I'm at neurips. DM me here / on the conference app or email if you want to meet 🏖️🌮
www.gao-unit.com/join-us/
If comp neuro, ML, and AI4Neuro is your thing, or you just nerd out over brain recordings, apply!
I'm at neurips. DM me here / on the conference app or email if you want to meet 🏖️🌮
free startup idea:
AI to lubricate the university administrative procedural system
AI to lubricate the university administrative procedural system
November 27, 2025 at 5:53 PM
free startup idea:
AI to lubricate the university administrative procedural system
AI to lubricate the university administrative procedural system
Reposted by Richard Gao
Our work on training biophysical models with Jaxley is now out in @natmethods.nature.com. Led by @deismic.bsky.social, with @philipp.hertie.ai, @ppjgoncalves.bsky.social & @jakhmack.bsky.social et al.
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Jaxley: differentiable simulation enables large-scale training of detailed biophysical models of neural dynamics - Nature Methods
Jaxley is a versatile platform for biophysical modeling in neuroscience. It allows efficiently simulating large-scale biophysical models on CPUs, GPUs and TPUs. Model parameters can be optimized with ...
www.nature.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Our work on training biophysical models with Jaxley is now out in @natmethods.nature.com. Led by @deismic.bsky.social, with @philipp.hertie.ai, @ppjgoncalves.bsky.social & @jakhmack.bsky.social et al.
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Richard Gao
Just 1 week to apply! 4 year @erc.europa.eu funded PhD position working in an interdisciplinary team to study #culturalEvolution as a process of reuse, recombination, and creative re-engineering of past solutions. Details 👉 hmc-lab.com/ERCPhDCultur... 🙏Please share!
November 5, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Just 1 week to apply! 4 year @erc.europa.eu funded PhD position working in an interdisciplinary team to study #culturalEvolution as a process of reuse, recombination, and creative re-engineering of past solutions. Details 👉 hmc-lab.com/ERCPhDCultur... 🙏Please share!
what will we achieve first:
1. world peace
2. off-ball screens in pickup basketball
?
1. world peace
2. off-ball screens in pickup basketball
?
November 5, 2025 at 8:18 PM
what will we achieve first:
1. world peace
2. off-ball screens in pickup basketball
?
1. world peace
2. off-ball screens in pickup basketball
?
this is the kind of stuff one could only dream of in primates
October 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
this is the kind of stuff one could only dream of in primates
Reposted by Richard Gao
New post in @jocnforum.bsky.social by Early Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social: "Principles for proper peer review"
doi.org/10.21428/8e6...
doi.org/10.21428/8e6...
Principles for proper peer review
doi.org
October 6, 2025 at 9:02 PM
New post in @jocnforum.bsky.social by Early Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social: "Principles for proper peer review"
doi.org/10.21428/8e6...
doi.org/10.21428/8e6...
Manuel Brenner and I managed to organize this workshop not knowing we were gonna end up being new neighbors this month. The lineup speaks for itself.
There were some last minute cancellations so we jumped in to fill their big shoes and will talk about the future directions of the new labs too!
There were some last minute cancellations so we jumped in to fill their big shoes and will talk about the future directions of the new labs too!
September 29, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Manuel Brenner and I managed to organize this workshop not knowing we were gonna end up being new neighbors this month. The lineup speaks for itself.
There were some last minute cancellations so we jumped in to fill their big shoes and will talk about the future directions of the new labs too!
There were some last minute cancellations so we jumped in to fill their big shoes and will talk about the future directions of the new labs too!
I've been waiting some years to make this joke and now it’s real:
I conned somebody into giving me a faculty job!
I’m starting as a W1 Tenure-Track Professor at Goethe University Frankfurt in a week (lol), in the Faculty of CS and Math
and I'm recruiting PhD students 🤗
I conned somebody into giving me a faculty job!
I’m starting as a W1 Tenure-Track Professor at Goethe University Frankfurt in a week (lol), in the Faculty of CS and Math
and I'm recruiting PhD students 🤗
a man wearing a white shirt and tie smiles in front of a window
ALT: a man wearing a white shirt and tie smiles in front of a window
media.tenor.com
September 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I've been waiting some years to make this joke and now it’s real:
I conned somebody into giving me a faculty job!
I’m starting as a W1 Tenure-Track Professor at Goethe University Frankfurt in a week (lol), in the Faculty of CS and Math
and I'm recruiting PhD students 🤗
I conned somebody into giving me a faculty job!
I’m starting as a W1 Tenure-Track Professor at Goethe University Frankfurt in a week (lol), in the Faculty of CS and Math
and I'm recruiting PhD students 🤗
Reposted by Richard Gao
🚨 2 Postdoc openings in Neuroscience – Liège, Belgium 🚨
We are recruiting for a project on brain development & autism that includes:
⚡ Neuropixels recordings
⚡ Opto/chemo
⚡ Behavior
⚡ Neural network modeling
If you know someone, tag them or RT for visibility! 🙏
www.fens.org/careers/job-...
We are recruiting for a project on brain development & autism that includes:
⚡ Neuropixels recordings
⚡ Opto/chemo
⚡ Behavior
⚡ Neural network modeling
If you know someone, tag them or RT for visibility! 🙏
www.fens.org/careers/job-...
2 Postdoc Positions in Systems Neuroscience - Federation of European Neuroscience Societies
www.fens.org
September 17, 2025 at 9:38 AM
🚨 2 Postdoc openings in Neuroscience – Liège, Belgium 🚨
We are recruiting for a project on brain development & autism that includes:
⚡ Neuropixels recordings
⚡ Opto/chemo
⚡ Behavior
⚡ Neural network modeling
If you know someone, tag them or RT for visibility! 🙏
www.fens.org/careers/job-...
We are recruiting for a project on brain development & autism that includes:
⚡ Neuropixels recordings
⚡ Opto/chemo
⚡ Behavior
⚡ Neural network modeling
If you know someone, tag them or RT for visibility! 🙏
www.fens.org/careers/job-...
ES IST WIEDER DENNIS SCHROEDER
a basketball player wearing a jersey that says deutschland on it
ALT: a basketball player wearing a jersey that says deutschland on it
media.tenor.com
September 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM
ES IST WIEDER DENNIS SCHROEDER
Reposted by Richard Gao
From hackathon to release: sbi v0.25 is here! 🎉
What happens when dozens of SBI researchers and practitioners collaborate for a week? New inference methods, new documentation, lots of new embedding networks, a bridge to pyro and a bridge between flow matching and score-based methods 🤯
1/7 🧵
What happens when dozens of SBI researchers and practitioners collaborate for a week? New inference methods, new documentation, lots of new embedding networks, a bridge to pyro and a bridge between flow matching and score-based methods 🤯
1/7 🧵
September 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
From hackathon to release: sbi v0.25 is here! 🎉
What happens when dozens of SBI researchers and practitioners collaborate for a week? New inference methods, new documentation, lots of new embedding networks, a bridge to pyro and a bridge between flow matching and score-based methods 🤯
1/7 🧵
What happens when dozens of SBI researchers and practitioners collaborate for a week? New inference methods, new documentation, lots of new embedding networks, a bridge to pyro and a bridge between flow matching and score-based methods 🤯
1/7 🧵
arguably the most important component of AI for neuroscience:
data, and its usability
data, and its usability
🚨 Excited to announce our #NeurIPS2025 Workshop: Data on the Brain & Mind
📣 Call for: Findings (4- or 8-page) + Tutorials tracks
🎙️ Speakers include @dyamins.bsky.social @lauragwilliams.bsky.social @cpehlevan.bsky.social
🌐 Learn more: data-brain-mind.github.io
📣 Call for: Findings (4- or 8-page) + Tutorials tracks
🎙️ Speakers include @dyamins.bsky.social @lauragwilliams.bsky.social @cpehlevan.bsky.social
🌐 Learn more: data-brain-mind.github.io
August 11, 2025 at 11:28 AM
arguably the most important component of AI for neuroscience:
data, and its usability
data, and its usability
Reposted by Richard Gao
My PhD journey has officially come to end with a Summa Cum Laude, thanks to all the amazing people who’ve supported me along the way, especially my advisors Anna Levina and @engeltatiana.bsky.social!
Which apparently coincided with graduation from a witchcraft and wizardry school 😉
#neuroskyence
Which apparently coincided with graduation from a witchcraft and wizardry school 😉
#neuroskyence
July 31, 2025 at 9:17 PM
My PhD journey has officially come to end with a Summa Cum Laude, thanks to all the amazing people who’ve supported me along the way, especially my advisors Anna Levina and @engeltatiana.bsky.social!
Which apparently coincided with graduation from a witchcraft and wizardry school 😉
#neuroskyence
Which apparently coincided with graduation from a witchcraft and wizardry school 😉
#neuroskyence
asked Claude to brainstorm for a new blogpost given two previous ones and it immediately starts talking like me.
let's just say it's very...disconcerting.
also TIL I'm a snarky asshole lol.
let's just say it's very...disconcerting.
also TIL I'm a snarky asshole lol.
June 16, 2025 at 10:28 AM
asked Claude to brainstorm for a new blogpost given two previous ones and it immediately starts talking like me.
let's just say it's very...disconcerting.
also TIL I'm a snarky asshole lol.
let's just say it's very...disconcerting.
also TIL I'm a snarky asshole lol.
some advice I got years ago:
if you get lots of questions after your talk, even if they sound mean (they're usually not), it means you did work that people actually bought into and can engage with.
if you get lots of questions after your talk, even if they sound mean (they're usually not), it means you did work that people actually bought into and can engage with.
If you're just fishing for validation you might be disappointed to hear a participant yell at you for the entire duration about all the problems. The font is wrong, there aren't enough features, it's too slow.
THIS is real validation. Mfer is bought in to the concept. They're just nitpicking.
THIS is real validation. Mfer is bought in to the concept. They're just nitpicking.
June 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
some advice I got years ago:
if you get lots of questions after your talk, even if they sound mean (they're usually not), it means you did work that people actually bought into and can engage with.
if you get lots of questions after your talk, even if they sound mean (they're usually not), it means you did work that people actually bought into and can engage with.
Reposted by Richard Gao
Inria is opening a Junior Professor Position (tenure track) at Saclay on the topic of Cognitive Computational Neuroscience.
This junior professorship is part of the development of computational cognitive neuroscience within @univparissaclay.bsky.social #Neurospin @neuropsi.bsky.social and #inria
This junior professorship is part of the development of computational cognitive neuroscience within @univparissaclay.bsky.social #Neurospin @neuropsi.bsky.social and #inria
April 28, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Inria is opening a Junior Professor Position (tenure track) at Saclay on the topic of Cognitive Computational Neuroscience.
This junior professorship is part of the development of computational cognitive neuroscience within @univparissaclay.bsky.social #Neurospin @neuropsi.bsky.social and #inria
This junior professorship is part of the development of computational cognitive neuroscience within @univparissaclay.bsky.social #Neurospin @neuropsi.bsky.social and #inria
Reposted by Richard Gao
Excited to present our work on compositional SBI for time series at #ICLR2025 tomorrow!
If you're interested in simulation-based inference for time series, come chat with Manuel Gloeckler or Shoji Toyota
at Poster #420, Saturday 10:00–12:00 in Hall 3.
📰: arxiv.org/abs/2411.02728
If you're interested in simulation-based inference for time series, come chat with Manuel Gloeckler or Shoji Toyota
at Poster #420, Saturday 10:00–12:00 in Hall 3.
📰: arxiv.org/abs/2411.02728
Compositional simulation-based inference for time series
Amortized simulation-based inference (SBI) methods train neural networks on simulated data to perform Bayesian inference. While this strategy avoids the need for tractable likelihoods, it often requir...
arxiv.org
April 25, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Excited to present our work on compositional SBI for time series at #ICLR2025 tomorrow!
If you're interested in simulation-based inference for time series, come chat with Manuel Gloeckler or Shoji Toyota
at Poster #420, Saturday 10:00–12:00 in Hall 3.
📰: arxiv.org/abs/2411.02728
If you're interested in simulation-based inference for time series, come chat with Manuel Gloeckler or Shoji Toyota
at Poster #420, Saturday 10:00–12:00 in Hall 3.
📰: arxiv.org/abs/2411.02728
Reposted by Richard Gao
I am teaching my phd writing workshop course this quarter, question: are there any words/phrases said to you by an advisor/mentor that stuck with you, were memorable, or particularly helpful? If so please reply below!
April 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I am teaching my phd writing workshop course this quarter, question: are there any words/phrases said to you by an advisor/mentor that stuck with you, were memorable, or particularly helpful? If so please reply below!
"but the AI will replace scientists and solve physics"
Someone on Threads noticed you can type any random sentence into Google, then add “meaning” afterwards, and you’ll get an AI explanation of a famous idiom or phrase you just made up. Here is mine
April 23, 2025 at 2:26 PM
"but the AI will replace scientists and solve physics"