Caitlin

Computer Science PhD Josh Bongard Lab @uvmvermont

[Caitlin @csgrasso10]

@Kriegmerica @DoctorJosh Thank you Sam!

[Caitlin @csgrasso10]

@DoctorJosh Thank you for everything, Josh! It was an honor to be your advisee 🙂

[Caitlin @csgrasso10]

@GizemGumuskaya Thanks so much Gizem!

[Caitlin @csgrasso10]

@ThosVarley Thank you, Thomas! Very thankful to have met and learned so much from you on this journey!

[Caitlin @csgrasso10]

@DoctorJosh Thank you for everything, Josh. It has been an honor to be your advisee!

[ALIFE Conference 2026 @ALifeConf]

There is still time to submit to the Virtual Creatures Competition! 🤓

Prize: $250,  exclusive branded merchandise, and an exciting opportunity for a job interview with a stealth R&D entity focusing on artificial life and virtual creatures at scale.

https://t.co/0JOwnkPAWz

[Michael Levin @drmichaellevin]

New preprint: https://t.co/16xeRnspYo
"Revealing non-trivial information structures in aneural biological tissues via functional connectivity"
@DougBlackiston, Hannah Dromiack, @csgrasso10, @ThosVarley, Douglas Moore, Krishna Shrinivasan, @spornslab, @DoctorJosh, @Sara_Imari
Connectivity networks of calcium signaling during injury response in Xenopus synthetic morphology

[Josh Bongard @DoctorJosh]

Looking to hire a postdoc to do AI-designed biology with @drmichaellevin and myself.

Please RT; DM if interested.

Here's what happened the last time we teamed up:

https://t.co/A8UPW2Ft1a

[ALIFE Conference 2026 @ALifeConf]

The Virtual Creatures Competition has a new judge confirmed: Ricard Solé.
Are you ready to submit? 🤓
#vcc24
https://t.co/0JOwnkP371

[ALIFE Conference 2026 @ALifeConf]

Four distinguished judges have been confirmed for the Virtual Creatures Competition this year. Do you want them to know your work? Get ready to submit!🤓
https://t.co/0JOwnkP371

[ALIFE Conference 2026 @ALifeConf]

The next Virtual Creatures Competition will be held at ALife 24 (Copenhagen). Are you up for the challenge? Join the competition and make the new virtual generation begin! Deadline: 10th of June 2024.

https://t.co/0JOwnkPAWz

[Josh Bongard @DoctorJosh]

For 29 years, AI-driven robot design has required weeks on a supercomputer.

Today, in #PNAS, we report how modern AI can design robots in 30 seconds, on a laptop.

Joint work w/ David Matthews, Andrew Spielberg, Daniela Rus, and Sam Kriegman (@Kriegmerica)

[Josh Bongard @DoctorJosh]

#xenobots are AI-designed organisms.

But what if next-gen biobots can't be designed by AI?

Introducing ADS's: AI-designed swarms!

@PiperRWelch will be presenting this, her new work, at #ALife2023 on Tuesday.

Joint work w/ @csgrasso10, @GizemGumuskaya and @DrMichaelLevin.

[Josh Bongard @DoctorJosh]

How can #robot swarms work together safely?

@csgrasso10 has found that they need to push against their neighbors in diverse ways, and get pushed back by them in reliable ways, *quickly*.

Come see her describe this at @GeccoConf today.

And vote for this, a best paper contender!

[Vermont Complex Systems Institute @ UVM @uvmcomplexity]

"Selection for short-term empowerment accelerates the evolution of homeostatic neural cellular automata"

New preprint from PhD student @csgrasso10 & faculty member @DoctorJosh

https://t.co/huI4Qfzbrg

[Michael Levin @drmichaellevin]

And this very cool preprint from @DoctorJosh and @csgrasso10 :

https://t.co/yH9eOmZy18

"Selection for short-term empowerment accelerates the evolution of homeostatic neural cellular automata"

[Josh Bongard @DoctorJosh]

On Wed @IEEERoboSoft, come check out our work on

Autotomic robots, which "subtract to adapt".

Joint work led by @RiveSunder; supported by @TheFaboratory members Stephanie Woodman, Melanie Landesberg, and Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio.

#Robosoft2023

https://t.co/8zouPCZ3gt

[Josh Bongard @DoctorJosh]

If you missed @MedhaGoyal and @ParsaAtoosa's presentation of our work on

evolved variable stiffness sheets

at #Robosoft2023 today, here's the summary video.

Joint work w/ @TheFaboratory.

https://t.co/hPQDwwlOdL

[Josh Bongard @DoctorJosh]

Our 3 @GeccoConf papers were accepted!

First: @csgrasso10 shows that cells struggle to grow to a target shape (green) if they are evolved to do only that (top), compared to cells also evolved to wrestle their neighbors into submission *quickly* (bottom).

https://t.co/UCzwpXJG2J

[Caitlin @csgrasso10]

Go @PiperRWelch! 🥳

[Josh Bongard @DoctorJosh]

My @uvmvermont doctoral advisee @PiperRWelch was just awarded an NSF GRFP.

https://t.co/fvH80rhf66

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