Our paper "Neuromorphic principles meet reinforcement learning for virtual robotic control" is out in Neuromorphic Computing and Engineering. I'm honored that it was selected for the journal's Rising Stars 2026 collection
https://t.co/LYsA5TIohJ
❤️Joint work with @MelikaPayvand
What role does neuroscience play in the age of AI? I gave a talk at #Cosyne2026 on this, and I think the answer lies in how we take inspiration from biology. Not all biological inspiration is equal.
I summarize my talk here
https://t.co/assp0VMhkF
Massive thanks to the @achterbrain and Nicolas Skatchkovsky for having me in their great workshop
https://t.co/l7IJZnLu58
Thanks to @MelikaPayvand - my amazing PI - for her support
La storia di Natale 🎄 di quest’anno è un flashback al maggio 2018. Ad un torneo di provincia di Casale Monferrato, in Piemonte. I primi caldi, le zanzare, la terra battuta e un ragazzino mingherlino coi capelli rossi che è arrivato da solo in treno e ha ricevuto una wild card
Il suo nome è Jannik #Sinner e sta vivendo il passaggio più delicato: quello da junior a tennista professionista. Questo è il racconto di chi c’era
Vamos, @RafaelNadal!
As you get ready to graduate from tennis, I’ve got a few things to share before I maybe get emotional.
Let’s start with the obvious: you beat me—a lot. More than I managed to beat you. You challenged me in ways no one else could. On clay, it felt like I was stepping into your backyard, and you made me work harder than I ever thought I could just to hold my ground. You made me reimagine my game—even going so far as to change the size of my racquet head, hoping for any edge.
I’m not a very superstitious person, but you took it to the next level. Your whole process. All those rituals. Assembling your water bottles like toy soldiers in formation, fixing your hair, adjusting your underwear... All of it with the highest intensity. Secretly, I kind of loved the whole thing. Because it was so unique—it was so you.
And you know what, Rafa, you made me enjoy the game even more.
OK, maybe not at first. After the 2004 Australian Open, I achieved the #1 ranking for the first time. I thought I was on top of the world. And I was—until two months later, when you walked on the court in Miami in your red sleeveless shirt, showing off those biceps, and you beat me convincingly. All that buzz I’d been hearing about you—about this amazing young player from Mallorca, a generational talent, probably going to win a major someday—it wasn’t just hype.
We were both at the start of our journey and it’s one we ended up taking together. Twenty years later, Rafa, I have to say: What an incredible run you’ve had. Including 14 French Opens—historic! You made Spain proud... you made the whole tennis world proud.
I keep thinking about the memories we’ve shared. Promoting the sport together. Playing that match on half-grass, half-clay. Breaking the all-time attendance record by playing in front of more than 50,000 fans in Cape Town, South Africa. Always cracking each other up. Wearing each other out on the court and then, sometimes, almost literally having to hold each other up during trophy ceremonies.
I’m still grateful you invited me to Mallorca to help launch the Rafa Nadal Academy in 2016. Actually, I kind of invited myself. I knew you were too polite to insist on me being there, but I didn’t want to miss it. You have always been a role model for kids around the world, and Mirka and I are so glad that our children have all trained at your academies. They had a blast and learned so much—like thousands of other young players. Although I always worried my kids would come home playing tennis as lefties.
And then there was London—the Laver Cup in 2022. My final match. It meant everything to me that you were there by my side—not as my rival but as my doubles partner. Sharing the court with you that night, and sharing those tears, will forever be one of the most special moments of my career.
Rafa, I know you’re focused on the last stretch of your epic career. We will talk when it’s done. For now, I just want to congratulate your family and team, who all played a massive role in your success. And I want you to know that your old friend is always cheering for you, and will be cheering just as loud for everything you do next.
Rafa that!
Best always, your fan,
Roger
Che bello avere un torneo così importante e ben organizzato vicino a casa. I giochi di luci, il fan village e i prezzi dei biglietti sono tutti decisamente esagerati. Però difficilmente si torna a casa delusi
The #SNUFA24 final program is out and the event is next Tue-Wed! If you love spiking neural networks, click on the link below to check it out and register (free).
https://t.co/U7TGfWN815
We know the power of architecture in neural networks. Can imposing a temporal architecture have similar performance effect in Spiking Networks? Filippo makes a first step in studying that. Check it out on Arxiv and the following thread!
Let me thank my amazing co-authors Laura Kriener and Pau Vilimelis Aceituno, who helped me formulate these ideas. Also, massive thank to @MelikaPayvand , my amazing professor <3
Feedback is welcome, don't hesitate to contact me
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So in general:
– Temporal hierarchy is a beneficial inductive bias in SNNs that can be constructed with both neuronal dynamic (time constants) and delays (temporal convolutions)
– Optimisation ends up landing on temporal hierarchy
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