Mattia Rigotti — Machine Learning and Neuroscience Research

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

    Affiliations

  • 2014 - now    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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