@bkhmsi

PhD @EPFL_en SR @GoogleDeepMind Ex @MetaAI, @SonyAI_global, @Microsoft MSc @CoCoNeuro_Gold BSc CS @AUC Egyptian 🇪🇬

 Cairo, Egypt
bkhmsi.github.io
Joined January 2021
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Heading to #COLM2026? Don't miss our paper led by Mete (@mismayilsoy) on the surprising parallels between LLMs and the human brain in creative thinking! 🧠✨
Mete@mismayilsoyOct 6
Do LLMs align with the human brain during creative thinking? 🤔 In our new #COLM2026 paper, we find that the answer is Yes! Come check it out at Poster Session 1, 11:00am PDT, 06/10!
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Deniz Bayazit@denizbayazitSep 22
Whoops, chose the wrong week to share our paper… Something about someone named Navier and Stokes???? But hey the code is out now! Go play with latent identification probes 🤾 💻 Code: github.com/bayazitdeniz/late…

GitHub - bayazitdeniz/latent-lid: Code for the "Lingua Franca or Probing Artifact?" paper.

Code for the "Lingua Franca or Probing Artifact?" paper. - bayazitdeniz/latent-lid

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Deniz Bayazit@denizbayazitSep 8
1/🚨 New paper #emnlp2026 Do multilingual #LLMs work in English? It depends on how you ask. In "Lingua Franca or Probing Artifact?", we probe the same hidden states with three latent language identification methods and get different answers. 🧵👇 #interpretability #NLProc
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Egyptians in CS Research now features 300+ researchers. Hoping it inspires students from underrepresented backgrounds by showing them what a path into research can look like. If you know someone missing from the list, nominate them. egyptians-in-cs.github.io
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Greta Tuckute@GretaTuckuteSep 17
Thanks so much for the fun and stimulating conversation Jekaterina, @WiAIR_podcast ! Such a pleasure to chat about language, LLMs, and memory--covering some work with @bkhmsi @martin_schrimpf @Mikey_Lepori @KlemenKotar @ev_fedorenko @thomashikaru, among others!
Women in AI Research WiAIR@WiAIR_podcastSep 17
New episode of #WiAIRpodcast: @GretaTuckute (@KempnerInst @Harvard) talks to @J_Novikova_NLP about what brain-LLM alignment does and does not tell us, and why, asked to keep one label out of neuroscience, cognitive science and AI, she drops AI first
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Ahmad Baracat@AhmadBaracatSep 15
We are hiring at @ko_br_ (embodied AI) across engineering, sales, and operations. Please spread the word and tag anyone who might be a good fit 🤖🦾. We give robots the ability to reliably perform mundane manufacturing work. Come build with us. We are looking for: • Founding Software Engineers • Founding Deployment & Operations Engineers • Founding Sales Engineers • Robot Teleoperators Apply here: app.dover.com/jobs/ko-br
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So do LLMs really think in English? 🤔 Turns out it depends on how you ask. Different latent-language-ID methods give you different answers! We test 27 candidate languages across 12 models, two of them analyzed through pretraining. Led by the amazing @denizbayazit 👇
Deniz Bayazit@denizbayazitSep 8
1/🚨 New paper #emnlp2026 Do multilingual #LLMs work in English? It depends on how you ask. In "Lingua Franca or Probing Artifact?", we probe the same hidden states with three latent language identification methods and get different answers. 🧵👇 #interpretability #NLProc
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One direction I'm especially excited about: relating LLM's latent language to the human brain's "language of thought," which recent work by @HopeKean, @ev_fedorenko and colleagues suggests isn't natural language at all. 🤯 Link: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.25…

Evidence from formal logical reasoning reveals that the language of thought is not natural language...

Humans are endowed with a powerful capacity for inductive and deductive logical thought: we easily form generalizations based on a few examples and...

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Martin Schrimpf
@martin_schrimpfAug 4
Come say hi at #CCN2026! Scaling laws for visual cortex, topographic multimodal models, video generation for the lateral stream, model-enabled applications, and a GAC on whether #NeuroAI is asking the right questions
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Hannes Mehrer@HannesMehrerAug 4
"So, you have a highly predictive model, now what?" At this #CCN2026 event on Wed, 5 Aug, 4pm at NYU Skirball Theatre I will present work using ANN brain models for visual prostheses (tinyurl.com/modelguidedmicro…) and for dyslexia (tinyurl.com/dyslexiaX, first author: @melikahnd_1).
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Excited to be at #CCN2026 in NYC! I'll be presenting our spotlight poster, Topo-Omni, with @HannesMehrer 🧠 📍 Poster F14 — Session F 🗓️ Thursday, Aug 6 Come by if you're around, we'd love to talk about how our multimodal model can discover functionally selective brain regions!
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You can find more about our paper here: Link: topo-omni.epfl.ch Summary: xitter.cf/bkhmsi/status/20668669…
Badr AlKhamissi@bkhmsiJun 16
🚨 New Preprint! 🧠 We gave an AI model one simple rule: rearrange your neurons so that nearby ones respond alike. We never told it what a face, a voice, or a sentence was. It grew brain-like maps for all three anyway. 🧵👇 🌐 Website: topo-omni.epfl.ch
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Martin Schrimpf
@martin_schrimpfJul 30
What a great write-up by @bkhmsi on which direction the arrow goes in Neuro <--> AI. #NeuroAI rolls off the tongue much more nicely, but AI->Neuro feels most impactful to me, and Badr is summarizing the arguments nicely.
Badr AlKhamissi@bkhmsiJul 30
Finally wrote up something I've been thinking about for a while, and with CCN next week, feels like the moment to share it: is the "virtuous circle" between AI and neuroscience that Hassabis et al. described in 2017 still turning? Curious what you think! bkhmsi.substack.com/p/ai-and…
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Finally wrote up something I've been thinking about for a while, and with CCN next week, feels like the moment to share it: is the "virtuous circle" between AI and neuroscience that Hassabis et al. described in 2017 still turning? Curious what you think! bkhmsi.substack.com/p/ai-and…
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Atari from raw pixels. AlphaGo vs Lee Sedol. AlphaFold. DeepMind has inspired me for years, and its neuroscience work is why I got into NeuroAI. So it means a lot to say I've joined @GoogleDeepMind Zurich as a Student Researcher for the next few months. In Zurich? Say hi :)
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Melika Honarmand@melikahnd_1Jul 10
1/6 New preprint! 🧠🔬 We gave Vision-Language Models the AI equivalent of anhedonia.
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Yingtian Tang@yingtian_davidJul 7
🚨 NEW PREPRINT Videos strongly shape activity across the visual cortex. But can we design videos that maximally drive specific brain regions? We present NEvo 🧬🧠 — a neural-guided evolutionary framework that synthesizes videos to maximally activate target visual ROIs. (1/10)
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📢 Calling for emergency reviewers for this #ARR cycle! I need reviewers in: 🔹 Interpretability & Analysis of NLP Models 🔹 Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling & Psycholinguistics If you (or someone you know) can help, reply or DM me 🙏 RTs appreciated! #EMNLP2026
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Egypt’s win today isn’t just about football, it’s a spark of joy for 110 million people and beyond who carry too much, and who deserve every bit of it. Mabrook Masr 🇪🇬
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Abdulkadir Gokce@akgokce0Jul 2
🧠 What's the best way to spend compute & neural data to build brain-aligned models? Our new ICML 2026 paper charts the scaling laws across 8 neural datasets & 600+ vision models. 👇 🌐 multimodal-brain-scaling.epf… w/ @yingtian_david & @martin_schrimpf
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Our work on Mixture of Cognitive Reasoners (MiCRo) made EPFL's front page today! 🎉 Read the full story here: actu.epfl.ch/news/epfl-resea… Grateful to everyone involved!
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Thanks to my amazing advisors and co-authors: @ABosselut @martin_schrimpf @GretaTuckute @cndesabbata @eric_zemingchen You can find our paper, models, code, and dataset here: cognitive-reasoners.epfl.ch
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