@_rdgao

W1 (Assistant) Professor of CS & Math at Goethe University Frankfurt. AI x neuroscience.

 Tübingen, Germany
gao-unit.com/
Joined June 2014
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Georgia Channing
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Due to popular demand (we really did get a bunch of emails), we are extending the submission deadline to Sep 2, 2026 AOE. If you just needed an extra weekend to do cool science, this is your shot!
Georgia Channing
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🚨🔬 Announcing Sim2Science @NeurIPSConf 🔬🚨 Very excited to announce @simtoscience: ML with Imperfect Scientific Models Simulators such as AlphaFold, VASP, and JOREK underpin most of modern science, but how do we work with them? We'll be answering that this December with @SantiagoACadena, @pcastr, @cosmo_shirley, @jonkhler, and Petros Koumoutsakos of @Harvard.
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Richard Gao retweeted
Georgia Channing
@cgeorgiawAug 3
🚨🔬 Announcing Sim2Science @NeurIPSConf 🔬🚨 Very excited to announce @simtoscience: ML with Imperfect Scientific Models Simulators such as AlphaFold, VASP, and JOREK underpin most of modern science, but how do we work with them? We'll be answering that this December with @SantiagoACadena, @pcastr, @cosmo_shirley, @jonkhler, and Petros Koumoutsakos of @Harvard.
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come with you best (or worst) simulator models see you in Paris
Sim2Science Workshop@simtoscienceJul 30
Announcing Sim2Science: ML with Imperfect Scientific Models @NeurIPSConf! Submission deadline: 29 August 2026, 23:59 AoE Workshop: 12 or 13 December 2026, Paris, France 5-page workshop papers & 2-page Tiny Papers via OpenReview sim2science.com
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it took me so damn long to write this thing that the field actually became real in the 2.5 years hooooly anyway, here's another book: 100% grass-fed human-written down to every single letter, though probably for AI consumption only at this point. rdgao.com/blog/2026/06/10/

Beyond #NeuroAI, we need #AI4Neuro—and we’re going to suck at it (at first). [Part 3]

The fundamental principle of using AI for science is that it can help us do some things extremely efficiently, but it usually requires an ‘oracle’ or verifier. I’m of the opinion that we simply don’t...

rdgao.com
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Once you get past the first 5 minutes of me bumbling around clearly in need of media training, we settle into a nice groove talking about fitting mechanistic models, ML/AI for neuroscience, degeneracy and its potential benefits for biology (plus some good chuckles).
Gaute Einevoll@GauteEinevollFeb 28
Episode #38 in #TheoreticalNeurosciencePodcast: On extracting spiking network models from experiments - with Richard Gao @_rdgao theoreticalneuroscience.no/t… How to fit spiking network models to experimental data when there is no unique parameter set giving the best fit.
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I'm extremely grateful for Gaute for having me on the show. All the work from his group advancing our understanding of the LFP has influenced me since day 1 of my PhD. They say never meet your heroes but I think this time it went pretty good.
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I'd have nothing to talk about on this episode if not for my paper co-authors in the @mackelab, as well as Pedro, Jan-Matthis, and Michael paving the way with SBI.
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neurips is starting to feel like being on Twitter for too long, but irl
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Erin Grant@ermgrant6 Dec 2025
Thrilled to announce I'll start in 2026 as faculty in Psych & CS @UAlberta + @AmiiThinks Fellow!! 🥳 Recruiting students to develop theories of cognition in natural and artificial systems 🤖💭🧠. Find me at #NeurIPS2025 workshops (talk at @CogInterp & organising @DataOnBrainMind)
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New PhD position alert! #CompNeuro 👇
Richard Gao@_rdgao3 Dec 2025
Finally got the job ad—looking for 2 PhD students to start spring next year: gao-unit.com/join-us/ If comp neuro, ML, and AI4Neuro is your thing, or you just nerd out over brain recordings, apply! I'm at neurips. DM me here / on the app or email if you want to meet 🏖️🌮
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How is AI *actually* going to help neuroscience?
Data On the Brain & Mind Workshop @NeurIPS2025@DataOnBrainMind5 Dec 2025
2️⃣ days until #NeurIPS2025 Data on the Brain & Mind workshop! 🧠💭🤖 Join us on Dec 7 for a full-day interactive session 8am-5pm. Authors, plz remember to RSVP for mentorship lunch🥙 generously supported by @KavliFoundation and @SimonsFdn (@FlatironInst) data-brain-mind.github.io
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Finally got the job ad—looking for 2 PhD students to start spring next year: gao-unit.com/join-us/ If comp neuro, ML, and AI4Neuro is your thing, or you just nerd out over brain recordings, apply! I'm at neurips. DM me here / on the app or email if you want to meet 🏖️🌮
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I've been waiting some years to make this joke and now it’s real: I conned somebody into giving me a faculty job! I’m starting as a W1 Tenure-Track Professor at Goethe University Frankfurt in a week (lol), in the Faculty of CS and Math and I'm recruiting PhD students 🤗
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Lastly, on that note about people: 4 years in Tübingen flew by, and I truly had to adjust to "the village" when I first came. But now I really, really cannot imagine leaving. I’m thankful for so many people’s support, guidance, love, and sheer buffoonery.
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Luckily goodbye is temporary and many are coming to Bernstein in a week. If you’re also at Bernstein and want to chat about science, life, or whatever, send me a message! p.s. Frankfurt is probably the easiest place to leave whether you need to fly or take the train. FYI.
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