Excited to be at @RL_Conference 🇨🇦 this week! I'm presenting two talks on logical composition in RL (Aug 6, Track 3) + a poster at @RLFrameWorkshop on a simple yet effective approach for non-Markov RL (Aug 5). Huge thanks to my amazing co-authors 🥳. Come say hi!

We are excited to share that CAandL Lab will feature in 3 papers at #ICML2026 this week. Stop by and say hi if you are interested in any of these! @devonjarvi5, @stefsmlab, @geraudnt with @kleinric, @BenjaminRosman, Damien Harvey, Branden Ingram, and Steven James

Congratulations to our two new lab members for being awarded the Google PhD Fellowship! 🥳 We can't wait to see the exciting work that lies ahead.

🌟Celebrating African research excellence at #DLI2025! 🌟 The Kambule Doctoral Award recognises and encourages excellence in research and writing by doctoral candidates at African universities, in any area of computational and statistical sciences. This award celebrates African research excellence and honours Thamsanqa Kambule’s legacy as a defender of learning, seeker of knowledge, and activist for equality. 👏 Congratulations to Lexy Andati (Rhodes University & SARAO) and Geraud Nangue Tasse ( University of the Witwatersrand). #DLI2025 #Indaba2025 #Urunana

🚀 We’re excited to unveil the first lineup of technical tutorials and practicals at #DLI2025! These sessions go beyond training—they reflect our mission of building AI in Africa, “Urunana” (hand in hand). Attendees will gain hands-on experience, exploring advanced topics: Pracicals: ✨ Machine Learning Foundations ✨ Generative Models & LLMs for African languages Tutorials: ✨ Mathematics of Deep Learning ✨ Introduction to Deep Generative Models 📌 All tutorial content will also be available online after the Indaba. Don’t miss out—subscribe here 👉 lnkd.in/eCgXRqsV

🔭 Kambule Doctoral Award Winner: Lexy Andati (@Rhodes_Uni & SARAO, South Africa Runner-Up: @geraudnt (@WitsUniversity, South Africa)

Great news! This work has also been accepted into RLC for the Journal to Conference Track. Congrats @geraudnt and teams for the great result 🦾

Our paper, “Make Haste Slowly: A Theory of Emergent Structured Mixed Selectivity in Feature Learning ReLU Networks” will be presented at ICLR 2025 this week (openreview.net/forum?id=27SS…)! We derive closed-form dynamics for some, remarkably linear, feature learning ReLU networks (1/9)

I'm excited to announce that I have received the Thuthuka Research Grant from the @NRF_News! I will use this grant to start my own lab focused on comp neuro and ML theory at @WitsUniversity: the @caandl_lab! This is a joint effort with @VictoriaWi83762, @stefsmlab and @geraudnt.

Congratulations to @BenjaminRosman, a CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar, who will serve as the inaugural director of @WitsUniversity's new Machine Intelligence and Neural Discovery (MIND) Institute!

‼️Watch LIVE as we Launch The Wits MIND Institute‼️ Join us for the official launch of The Wits Machine Intelligence and Neural Discovery Institute (The Wits MIND Institute), Africa’s cutting-edge hub for interdisciplinary AI research! 🌍✨ Discover how we are pushing the boundaries of machine, human, and animal intelligence. 📡 Live Stream Here: wits.ac.za/mind/ #WitsForGood #WitsMINDInstitute #InnovationForGood

🚀 Exciting News! Our RAIL Lab team has been helping organize and will be speaking at the ICRA@40 Africa satellite conference! Don't miss out on cutting-edge discussions in robotics and AI. Tune in to the live stream to catch all the action! piped.video/@ICRAat40Africa (1/3)