{"id":135,"date":"2015-08-07T19:35:51","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T19:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tncg.csail.mit.edu\/?page_id=135"},"modified":"2025-05-12T17:13:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T17:13:02","slug":"news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ccg.csail.mit.edu\/?page_id=135","title":{"rendered":"News"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<li>May 12, 2025: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3ZckU3e\">Nir Shavit in Spotlight: Applying Lessons from Neurobiology to Make Smarter AI with MIT CSAIL Professor Nir Shavit<\/a><\/li>\n<li>May 29, 2024: Introducing Two New Papers: Tumma, Neehal, Kong, Linghao, Sawmya, Shashata, Wang, Tony T., Shavit, Nir. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biorxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2024.05.24.595837v1\">A connectomics-driven analysis reveals novel characterization of border regions in mouse visual cortex,<\/a> bioRxiv:2024.05.24.595837, May 2024.<br \/>\nSawmya, Shashata, Kong, Linghao, Markov, Ilia, Alistarh, Dan, Shavit, Nir. <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2405.15756\">Sparse Expansion and Neuronal Disentanglement,<\/a> ArXiv:2405.15756, May 2024.<\/li>\n<li>December 7, 2023: MIT SuperUROP Presentations by Heidi Durresi and Kaivu Hariharan. <a href=\"http:\/\/people.csail.mit.edu\/joanne\/kaivu-presentation.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-292\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-292 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/people.csail.mit.edu\/joanne\/kaivu-presentation.jpg\" alt=\"SuperUROP Presentations, December 7, 2023,  \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/people.csail.mit.edu\/joanne\/heidi-presentation.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-292\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-292 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/people.csail.mit.edu\/joanne\/heidi-presentation.jpg\" alt=\"SuperUROP Presentations, December 7, 2023 \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<hr \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>October 6, 2023: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csail.mit.edu\/news\/nih-awards-funding-brain-connects-project-involving-csail-researchers\">NIH awards funding to BRAIN CONNECTS project involving CSAIL researchers<\/a><\/li>\n<li>September 5, 2023: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/vgsA3pSzw2c?si=-9mnf-R7m5MSxIjP\">SmartEM project<\/a> posted on Forbes (Youtube video).<\/li>\n<li>May 31, 2023: Lu Mi and Michael Coulombe&#8217;s graduation (with Nir Shavit, Tony Wang, Linghao Kong) <a href=\"http:\/\/people.csail.mit.edu\/joanne\/lumi-michael-graduation.JPG\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-292\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-292 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/people.csail.mit.edu\/joanne\/lumi-michael-graduation.JPG\" alt=\"MIT Commencement: May 31, 2023,  \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/people.csail.mit.edu\/joanne\/LuMi-graduation.JPG\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-292\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-292 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/people.csail.mit.edu\/joanne\/LuMi-graduation.JPG\" alt=\"MIT Commencement: May 31, 2023,  \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<hr \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>Group member Tony Wang&#8217;s research on adversarially exploiting superhuman Go AIs featured in the <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/tDYsY\">Financial Times!<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Lu Mi defended her thesis &#8220;Deep Learning Tools for Next-Generation Connectomics&#8221; on August 18, 2022. Check out her <a href=\"http:\/\/people.csail.mit.edu\/joanne\/Lu_Mi_defense.pptx\">slides<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Coming soon in Nature! &#8220;We are delighted to accept your manuscript entitled &#8220;Connectomes across development reveal principles of brain maturation&#8221; for publication in Nature. Thank you for choosing to publish your interesting work with us.&#8221; \ud83d\ude42 #worm, #ai, #connectome. To those who are curious about the details, here is a <a href=\"https:\/\/lnkd.in\/ekduDPY\">longer preprint format.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>July 2021: David Rolnick group ex phd named to the <a href=\"https:\/\/lnkd.in\/dqNjm7T\">MIT Technology Review&#8217;s list of \u201cInnovators Under 35\u201d<\/a>, and am thrilled to see increasing interest across the AI community in cross-disciplinary partnerships for climate action.<\/li>\n<li>March 2020: <a href=\"https:\/\/openreview.net\/pdf?id=ryenvpEKDr\">A Constructive Prediction of the Generalization Across Scales<\/a> by Jonathan S. Rosenfeld, Amir Rosenfeld, Yonatan Belinkov, and Nir Shavit, ICLR 2020. This paper has been featured in Andrew Ng\u2019s news, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.deeplearning.ai\/blog\/the-batch-tracking-chinas-covid-19-revival-a-robot-star-is-born-discovering-new-antibiotics-rightsizing-neural-networks\">The Batch.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>February 2020: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csail.mit.edu\/news\/predicting-how-well-neural-networks-will-scale\">Predicting How Well Neural Networks Will Scale<\/a> Written by Adam Conner-Simons, MIT CSAIL.<\/li>\n<li>June 2019: <a href=\"http:\/\/openaccess.thecvf.com\/content_CVPR_2019\/html\/Meirovitch_Cross-Classification_Clustering_An_Efficient_Multi-Object_Tracking_Technique_for_3-D_Instance_CVPR_2019_paper.html\">Cross-Classification Clustering: An Efficient Multi-Object Tracking Technique for 3-D Instance Segmentation in Connectomics<\/a><br \/>\nby Yaron Meirovitch, Lu Mi, Hayk Saribekyan, Alexander Matveev, David Rolnick, Nir Shavit; The IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2019, pp. 8425-8435.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ai.intel.com\/deep-learning-study-brain-improve-deep-learning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 27, 2018: Blog on &#8220;Deep Learning to Study the Brain to Improve Deep Learning&#8221; is Live.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ppopp17.sigplan.org\/info\/conference-program\">January 2017: Shavit Lab&#8217;s PPoPP 2017 paper,<br \/>\nA Multicore Path to Connectomics-on-Demand is selected for<br \/>\nBest Paper Nominee.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ccg.csail.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Hayk-SaribekyanNir-Shavit.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-292\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-292 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/ccg.csail.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Hayk-SaribekyanNir-Shavit-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"MIT Commencement: June 3, 2016-Hayk SaribekyanNir-Shavit\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ccg.csail.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Hayk-SaribekyanNir-Shavit-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ccg.csail.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Hayk-SaribekyanNir-Shavit-420x315.jpg 420w, https:\/\/ccg.csail.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Hayk-SaribekyanNir-Shavit.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>June 3, 2016, MIT Commencement: Congratulations to new graduates,<br \/>\nGregory Odor and Hayk Saribekyan!<br \/>\n(Pictured: Hayk Saribekyan and Professor Nir Shavit.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iarpa.gov\/index.php\/research-programs\/microns\">February 2016: The Shavit Lab has been awarded research funding under the IARPA Machine Intelligence from Cortical Networks (MICrONS) project.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techrepublic.com\/article\/ibms-brain-like-chip-and-the-quest-for-a-cognitive-planet\">October 2015: Brain-like chip.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/accessibility.mit.edu\/\">Accessibility<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 12, 2025: Nir Shavit in Spotlight: Applying Lessons from Neurobiology to Make Smarter AI with MIT CSAIL Professor Nir Shavit May 29, 2024: Introducing Two New Papers: Tumma, Neehal, Kong, Linghao, Sawmya, Shashata, Wang, Tony T., Shavit, Nir. A connectomics-driven analysis reveals novel characterization of border regions in mouse visual cortex, bioRxiv:2024.05.24.595837, May 2024. Sawmya, Shashata, Kong, Linghao, Markov, Ilia, Alistarh, Dan, Shavit, Nir. Sparse Expansion and Neuronal Disentanglement, ArXiv:2405.15756, May 2024. December 7, 2023: MIT SuperUROP Presentations by Heidi Durresi and Kaivu Hariharan. October 6, 2023: NIH awards funding to BRAIN CONNECTS project involving CSAIL researchers September 5, 2023: SmartEM project posted on<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ccg.csail.mit.edu\/?page_id=135\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["entry","page","publish","author-developer","post-135"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccg.csail.mit.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccg.csail.mit.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccg.csail.mit.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccg.csail.mit.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccg.csail.mit.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":80,"href":"https:\/\/ccg.csail.mit.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":992,"href":"https:\/\/ccg.csail.mit.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/135\/revisions\/992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccg.csail.mit.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}