Mali Halac

A transhumanist engineer
#ML #Neuroscience #BioTech

Designing neural interfaces⚡️🧠🧬💻
PhD Student @Harvard

[Arnau Marin-Llobet @Arnauya]

Can neurons speak? 🧠
New preprint: NEURRATOR. We take #MechInterp out of the LMs and point it at real brains with real neurons. We read spike trains from single neurons in mouse visual cortex and get them to narrate the scene in plain language. 🧵
#NeuroAI #interpretability #neuroscience #LLMs #compneuro #SAEs #Neuropixels #AI

[Mali Halac @mali_halac]

That's why I love Professor Shapiro's research. They engineer proteins that enable single cell level non-invasive imaging and modulation of the nervous system and other organs too. Looking forward to seeing this vision translated to clinic in 15-ish years 💪🤞

[Mali Halac @mali_halac]

I was so excited to meet Professor @mikhailshapiro today at @MCB_Harvard 😱😎

Great dude with a great science 💯

[Mali Halac @mali_halac]

Today's electrodes used to interface with the nervous system are tools of the past with fundamental limitations. Tissue reactions, invasive surgeries, limited scalability and resolution... A more natural way is to use biomolecules.

(Plus, proteins are super cool 🤓)

[IEEE Spectrum @IEEESpectrum]

Follow the journey of your phone’s processor from the quartz crystal it started inside to the fully packaged chip in your #phone. Has your phone travelled more than you have? https://t.co/DKw9d10HkQ

[Mali Halac @mali_halac]

Excited to share our perspective article, published in Pain Medicine Journal , showcasing how interdisciplinary collaboration, innovation, and entrepreneurship can drive holistic solutions for patient care.

https://t.co/RmFpyeTAXE

[Mali Halac @mali_halac]

@fatihdin4en Zoom link'i var mi acaba?

[Mali Halac @mali_halac]

Lol, this made my day :) so relatable 😄

[Mert R. Sabuncu 🤖🩻⚕️ @mertrory]

Einstein was wrong! Deadlines are the true time warpers, not traveling close to the speed of light. I worry though what this means for my biological clock.

[Mali Halac @mali_halac]

@Arnauya Amazing work Arnau, congrats 🥳

[Mali Halac @mali_halac]

Honored to have Dr. Robinson on campus. It was insightful to hear his thoughts on the future of neural interfaces, entrepreneurship, and his latest venture using brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) to treat mood disorders. As he put it, 'What if medicine becomes technology?'

[Jacob Robinson @JTRobinsonLab]

Thanks to Jia Liu for hosting a wonderful visit to Harvard SEAS. So great to be back on campus, and see the fascinating work in Allston. Also, shout out to the bright students who were kind enough to share some pizza and a selfie with me.

[Mali Halac @mali_halac]

@zhipinghci A question for you: if a neural net is able to predict acceleration of a system from displacement values, do you think it has a concept of time?

[Mali Halac @mali_halac]

@zhipinghci Why?
Most models are trained on time series data.

[Mali Halac @mali_halac]

That's cool 🚀

[Financial Times @FT]

Prada and US aerospace start-up Axiom Space unveiled the spacesuits that astronauts will wear to the moon on Nasa's Artemis III mission. https://t.co/f5aut8KTz0

[Mali Halac @mali_halac]

AI collecting all the prizes this year😲🔥😎

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Chemistry with one half to David Baker “for computational protein design” and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper “for protein structure prediction.”

[Mali Halac @mali_halac]

This so unexpected, yet so exciting 😲🥳🎉🍾

[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.”

[Harvard Medical School @harvardmed]

Congratulations to Gary Ruvkun, professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School and an investigator at @MassGeneralNews, for winning the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine!

[daniel lobo @daniel_lobo_phd]

I love being a PhD student.

it feels like I’m expected to be miserable or overwhelmed.

but as a first-gen student, I’ve had to overcome a lot worse to get here.

to read and write and learn for a living feels like a gift that I hope I never take for granted, inshallah 🙏🏽

[Mali Halac @mali_halac]

"While learning to be a researcher, I realized that the thing I found most exciting was to be able to ask questions of the world that if answered, would be true of everyone, everywhere."

[Mali Halac @mali_halac]

@raflynn5 @pphristov Congrats @pphristov 🥳🎉🍾

[Mali Halac @mali_halac]

@liu_liu_lemon Congrats Kathy!!! 🥳🎉