Nina Miolane, PhD
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering UC Santa Barbara
Dr. Nina Miolane directs the Geometric Intelligence Lab at UC Santa Barbara, whose goal is to reveal the geometric signatures of natural and artificial intelligence and to build next–generation intelligent systems: Geometric AI. Her lab develops tools from geometry, topology, computer vision, machine learning and deep learning which are then incorporated into the open-source packages: Geomstats and TopoX with the PyT-team.
Dr. Miolane's research fundings include an NSF Career Award, an NIH R01 grant, a NSF SCALE MoDL grant, Google Season of Code and Noyce Initiative UC Partnerships grant for the University of California Women's Brain Initiative. She was the recipient of the L'Oréal-Unesco for Women in Science Award, the Hellman Fellow award and is involved in outreach initiatives in France and in the U.S. At UCSB, her work has been recognized by an Academic Senate Faculty Grant and a UC Regent's Junior Faculty Award. In her free time, she adventures in the golden state's outdoors, hiking in the mountains, riding motorcycles along the coast, or piloting single-engine airplanes in the Californian skies.