Alexander Mathis

Assistant Professor in Comp Neuro and ML at @epfl_en @CampusBiotech |

#deeplabcut co-developer |
past: @LMU_Muenchen, @uni_tue and @Harvard

[Alexander Mathis @TrackingPlumes]

This summer I spent time in Alaska doing field work with bears. It was a wonderful experience to learn more about bears and meet our collaborators!!

[Alexander Mathis @TrackingPlumes]

Check out our closed-loop model for primate reaching trained with imitation learning. I'm particularly excited about the last figure where we show how M1 can *drive* this controller! https://t.co/MhHOwYWfrp

Amazing work led by @a_marinvargas.

[Alexander Mathis @TrackingPlumes]

@silvia_zuffi Finally the first paper ... more to come from my favorite "side project": https://t.co/6pcFrKuYd6

[Alexander Mathis @TrackingPlumes]

This summer I spent time in Alaska doing field work with bears. It was a wonderful experience to learn more about bears and meet our collaborators!!

[Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis, PhD @TrackingActions]

🐻 reID of unmarked Grizzly's in Alaskan wilderness from single images is a daunting task, but in our new work out in @CurrentBiology that is exactly what Beth Rosenberg & Mu Zhou & @TrackingPlumes! 🔥 Check out the work - many years in the making...

https://t.co/YJvqPf0Kuf

[Nature Rev Neurosci @NatRevNeurosci]

Joint modelling of brain and behaviour dynamics with artificial intelligence — a Review by Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis & Alexander Mathis

@TrackingActions @TrackingPlumes

https://t.co/cP3K2yTi0g

[Alexander Mathis @TrackingPlumes]

Just in time for tracking my drills over the holidays...

[DeepLabCut 🦄 @DeepLabCut]

What a year! #DLC3🔥 is up tested by many of you (👀 watch out for a paper in 2025), we hit 750K downloads, and have over 120 contributors to the code!

❄️⛷just dropped: new human pose models & high perf. models! https://t.co/awA2SqLoNA #DigvijaySinghRathee

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

[DeepLabCut 🦄 @DeepLabCut]

What a year! #DLC3🔥 is up tested by many of you (👀 watch out for a paper in 2025), we hit 750K downloads, and have over 120 contributors to the code!

❄️⛷just dropped: new human pose models & high perf. models! https://t.co/awA2SqLoNA #DigvijaySinghRathee

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

[EPFL Life Sciences @epflSV]

🌟 Join the 2nd Lemanic Life Sciences Hackathon! 🌟
Are you a clinician with questions data could answer?
A life scientist with datasets that could spark discoveries?
Submit your project by Dec 30, 2024!
Info: https://t.co/emGPHCIjkt
@TrackingPlumes @EPFL_AI_Center @RLuisier

[Neuron @NeuroCellPress]

Here's our latest issue: https://t.co/ImgPc6z4Dp
The cover is for @TrackingPlumes & coll.'s work on a novel learning algorithm for skilled motor control learning, that you can read in full here https://t.co/4w6kYMGdEY, or in a Preview by @ScottLIMBlab https://t.co/FGuBL7O92R

[Alexander Mathis @TrackingPlumes]

I'm humbled to receive this award with @SuseWegener and @TrackingActions - thanks to all my students, collaborators and former supervisors that made this possible!

Let's keep pushing to better quantify behavior for health and beyond!

[EPFL Life Sciences @epflSV]

🥳🍾Alexander Mathis @TrackingPlumes and Mackenzie Mathis @TrackingActions the 2024 Robert Bing Prize, with Susanne Wegener @SuseWegener 🏆

https://t.co/5Zw85sIkrC

[DeepLabCut 🦄 @DeepLabCut]

🚀 DLC AI Residents call for 2025! This year, we are doing something a little different to support even more underrepresented individuals 🥰

We are having in-person workshops again 🙌, & we are taking the 2025 AI Residency on the Road! 🛤️

App open now!

https://t.co/n6rDHxB8de

[A. Mathis Group @amathislab]

Earlier this year we got a new lab logo -- it illustrates the core questions we are interested in.

Measuring behavior, and linking it to the brain and body with a particular interest in muscles as well muscle spindles. We focus on proprioception, motor control & skill learning.

[Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis, PhD @TrackingActions]

✨🥰 check out our article - and cover 🤩- about Decoding the Brain in @CellCellPress

https://t.co/HWBquErj0f

We review the mathematics, current approaches, and muse about the future…

#BCI #neuraldecoding #neuroAI

Thanks to my awesome co-authors Adriana Perez Rotondo, Edward Chang, @AToliasLab & @TrackingPlumes

[Sebastian Seung @SebastianSeung]

But is it physics? Hopfield tackled three profound questions about emergence: condensed matter from interactions between elementary particles, the magic of life from interactions between dead molecules, and intelligence/consciousness from interactions between dumb neurons.

[Alexander Mathis @TrackingPlumes]

Truly foundational!

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”

[Lucas Stoffl @LStoffl]

I'm thrilled to present our paper "Elucidating the Hierarchical Nature of Behavior with Masked Autoencoders" at #ECCV24! 🎉 We focus on self-supervised learning for action segmentation to uncover the hierarchical structure of behavior.

Paper: https://t.co/N4UBgbpqwY

👇🧵

[Sebastian Seung @SebastianSeung]

A historic milestone for neuroscience! It's been a fantastic journey for the #FlyWire Consortium. This special edition of Nature showcases the power of open science, with nine papers that not only describe the fly connectome, but also make discoveries using it.

[Alexander Mathis @TrackingPlumes]

Check out our work on the unsupervised discovery of hierarchical behavior from motion capture data at #ECCV24 this afternoon!

[Lucas Stoffl @LStoffl]

I'm thrilled to present our paper "Elucidating the Hierarchical Nature of Behavior with Masked Autoencoders" at #ECCV24! 🎉 We focus on self-supervised learning for action segmentation to uncover the hierarchical structure of behavior.

Paper: https://t.co/N4UBgbpqwY

👇🧵

[Alexander Mathis @TrackingPlumes]

The 2024 edition is ongoing, so feel free to join the competition.... https://t.co/efq9Cx9KW8
We'll sit this one out, ;)

[MyoSuite @MyoSuite]

🚨#MyoChallenge Submissions are LIVE
MyoChallengers, you can now register your team on evalAI and submit your best solution and start competing against worldwide teams 🌏
More info ➡️ https://t.co/MFUFkx24hS
May the best teams win 🏅

[Alexander Mathis @TrackingPlumes]

How does the brain control the numerous muscles of the body? Let's say you want to rotate two balls in your hand, how does your brain achieve that?

Read our article in @NeuroCellPress to learn more!
https://t.co/22vMq0HSdp

[Alexander Mathis @TrackingPlumes]

Fun fact, we also won the #MyoChallenge at @NeurIPSConf in 2023, also using curriculum learning & Lattice: https://t.co/RcHtqAAngE