Mariya Toneva
mtoneva.bsky.social
Mariya Toneva
@mtoneva.bsky.social
Faculty at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, working at the intersection of ML, language models, and cognitive neuroscience. Yogurt snob. https://mtoneva.com/
So excited and honored to receive an ERC Starting Grant for the project BrainAlign!! BrainAlign will bring LLMs closer to human understanding by directly aligning them with the human brain.

Stay tuned for our findings, and multiple postdoc and PhD openings in the coming years!
September 4, 2025 at 4:21 PM
2. Impressively, the top 4 (Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, Google) are able to maintain high quality as well as high quantity of research.
December 19, 2024 at 1:45 PM
Had the pleasure to discuss AI at the Max Planck Institutes. One question was: how is MPI doing in terms of impact in fundamental AI research?

Wanted some numbers so went through the accpeted papers from the top ML conferences in the last 3 years. The results were quite surprising:
December 19, 2024 at 1:45 PM