Mattia Rigotti · Researcher · AI + Neuroscience

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

Affiliations

  • 2020 - now Senior Research Scientist
    IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland

  • 2014-2020 Research Staff Member
    IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York

  • 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

  • 2006-2010 Ph.D. (Theoretical 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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