We used a new high resolution muscle model of the mouse forelimb that was provided by Rob Johnson and Igor Siwanowicz and the new results are more accurate and more generalizable than ever before. It seems that our project is at the cutting edge, excited for what’s next! 2/2
Had a blast presenting my poster at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) at the Simulated Bodies conference at Janelia about musculoskeletal imitation and transfer learning of mouse forelimb reaching with Talmo Pereira and Eiman Azim labs! 1/2
Redesigned my personal website! Featuring my computational neuro research, sci comm outreach, and film consulting. Video from our Comic Con panel with Fleet Science, my "Body Horror and the Brain" lecture @neurohumanitiesn.bsky.social and many collabs @cinebeth.bsky.social 🔗 ericleonardis.github.io
I made a website for House Music Fridays! Check out the Events page for upcoming events and past flyers, you can sign up for our email list there! There is info about the night, socials, residents and guest DJs, photos, and 46 hours of mixes. hmfsd.github.io
I put together a playlist of all the past House Music Fridays mixes I could find. 44 hours of high quality house music for your listening pleasure! Featuring some of the best house DJs in the business, and I have a few mixes on there too. Here’s the link: on.soundcloud.com/rFDxz7Rghnrf...
Noticeably a lot more dynamical systems stuff at COSYNE this year 👍 love to see it 😎
Let me know if you have any questions! Happy to discuss.
Presented my work on musculoskeletal imitation learning in the mouse at the Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE) conference in Lisbon! 🇵🇹 I am very excited to share our new massively parallel framework in JAX for training biomechanical models to perform dexterous motor control tasks.
Poster session from 8:30pm-11:30pm? Whose idea was this? Am I being punished? did I do something wrong? 😭lol
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Join me at House Music Fridays this week! I will be opening for Dj Neo24 (SF) and BPMSLIDE (Chicago) , should be a great time! Hope to see you at Air Conditioned Lounge in North Park, San Diego this Friday 9pm-2am.
Event page here: ra.co/events/2353768
Had a blast giving my lecture “Computational Ethology and Embodied AI” with Professor Federico Rossano’s class CogSci 13 class at UC San Diego! We discussed how to quantify animal behavior with 2D and 3D pose estimation, and use imitation learning to reproduce animal behaviors we observe in the lab!
New mix up! This was my warmup set for Duke Shin and Jesse Austin at HMF on Feb 6. deep and jackin house with some disco vibes too. Give it a listen and let me know what you think! LINK HERE: on.soundcloud.com/STttkCl2KqZH...
Great times with the Grammy award winner and Chicago legend himself Gene Hunt who played a killer set at HMF Air Conditioned Lounge 🚀 and solid vibes as always from your host Matthew Brian 🏠🎶 bringing the highest quality house music to you every Friday in San Diego 👊💥
Like genuinely… do not sweep this under the rug? It makes you look insane?
“notwithstanding the mob's recent hysteria about something of no significance whatsoever, namely personal emails.” <— is this a joke? this is cult worship… it’s significant if you’re not a sycophant
Excited to share that my poster, “Musculoskeletal Imitation Learning: Physics-Aware Constraints Promote Naturalistic Muscle Activity,” has been accepted to the Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE) Conference in Lisbon 🇵🇹 this March 🤩👏 Looking forward to great discussions with colleagues.
Awesome! Long live the new flesh!
Thanks to @gluzmania.bsky.social for having me at her class Science, Technology and Society: Science Communication at University of Alberta for a Q&A about my work as a scientific advisor for films. We discussed David Kirby's book Lab Coats in Hollywood and writing science on screen. What a blast!
In case you missed it, check out my new all vinyl mix with FeeLit Records Sunday Livestream! 🎶
Link here: youtu.be/m6gSsHe2lDs?...
Check out my vinyl mix on the Feelit Records Sunday Livestream out today!!! A selection of my favorite house records, most of which I bought from this store! Thanks to Markalan and DJ Valerian for having me out! Much love! www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6gS...
Big win: robust control policies deployed out of the box. It’s physically gentle and safe too. I hovered with the safety harness like a nervous parent… totally unnecessary 😅 Can’t wait to start training more complex behaviors. What should we teach Sprout next?
We just got the Sprout robot from @faunarobotics.bsky.social in @talmo.bsky.social ’s lab. Usually robots mean weeks of debugging pain before experiments even start. This time we powered it on and got the robot to stand, walk and teleop on Day 1. Respect to the engineers that made setup so smooth!
Join me for my all vinyl DJ set this Wednesday 6-9pm at The Office SD for Dance Klassique Vinyl Sessions
Hope you can join me for my All Vinyl DJ set this Wednesday 1/28 for Dance Klassique Vinyl Sessions with host Ivan Gregory at The Office SD! I will be spinning some downtempo, boogie, disco and deep house on the wheels of steel! I hope you can join us to warm up the night 6-9pm
A real tour de force today by Mala Murthy @princetonneuro.bsky.social at @salkinstitute.bsky.social about her work with @sebastianseung.bsky.social on leveraging the complete connectome of the fly brain to understand social behavior in fruit flies. Incredible work!
