W1 (Assistant) Professor of CS & Math at Goethe University Frankfurt. AI x neuroscience.
Tübingen, Germany
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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!
🚨🔬 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
🚨🔬 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
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/
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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).
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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Richard Gao retweeted
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 👇
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?
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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