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Alexander Mathis
@trackingskills.bsky.social
Hacker, Computational Neuroscience, ML beyond logistic regression, bear and muscle spindle aficionado. Passionate about open source. #deeplabcut and see https://mathislab.org for more.
The team just picked up the latest data from the Swiss National Parc. Full of goodies - find out more about the first paper from the project: eceo-epfl.github.io/MammAlps/
October 17, 2025 at 8:58 AM
September 14, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Something exciting just left the gym -- meet Arnold the first generalist musculoskeletal control policy!

The human body has 600+ muscles, yet we seamlessly coordinate them for everything from whispering a syllable to felling a forrest. How? www.arxiv.org/abs/2508.18066
September 4, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Thanks Maxime for coming from Paris and giving me a brioche for reaching some milestone… 😂
April 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Inspiring keynote on how to sell your startup by EPFL graduate Maxime Vidal, who founded a startup that was later acquired… www.epfl.ch/schools/sv/l...
April 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Check out Kinesis - KINESIS is a reinforcement learning framework for physiologically plausible musculoskeletal motor control. Using a musculoskeletal model of the lower body with 80 muscle actuators and 20 degrees of freedom, KINESIS achieves strong imitation performance on motion capture data, …
April 24, 2025 at 10:45 AM
How the brain coordinates the activity of its many muscles to achieve successful control remains an enigma. www.cell.com/issue/S0896-...
December 5, 2024 at 11:10 PM
July 30, 2023 at 7:37 PM
👋 Happy to be invited to Bluesky! I’m a computational neuroscientist interested in understanding natural intelligence! Here is a picture from recent field work in Alaska #springcubs/w60x
July 30, 2023 at 7:31 PM