Mattia Rigotti · AI and Neuroscience Research

I am a Senior Research Scientist at IBM Research AI, working at the intersection of machine learning and neuroscience. My research covers reasoning in LLMs, visual foundation models, trustworthy AI, and AI for science, as well as the geometry of neural representations in the brain.

Affiliations

  • 2014 - now Senior Research Scientist
    Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience, IBM Research

  • 2013-2014 Associate Research Fellow
    Center for Theoretical Neuroscience and The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia University, New York

  • 2010-2013 Postdoctoral Fellow
    Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York


Education

  • 2007-2010 Ph.D. (Neuroscience, Feb. 2010); M.Phil. (Neurobiology and Behavior, Oct. 2009)
    Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY
    Thesis: "Modeling the neural mechanisms underlying rule-based behavior"

  • 2004 DEA (Theoretical Physics, June 2004)
    Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI / École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France

  • 2000-2005 M.Sc., Dipl. Phys. ETH Zürich (Theoretical Physics, Dec. 2005)
    Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland
    Thesis: "A Relativistic Stochastic Process: statistical mechanics in a general relativistic framework"

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