Caitlin
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Caitlin
@csgrasso10
Computer Science PhD Josh Bongard Lab @uvmvermont
Burlington, VT Se unió Mart 2019
126 Siguiendo169 Seguidores
So proud of *Dr.* Caitlin Grasso (@csgrasso10 ).
She empowered herself by discovering how to empower machines (bit.ly/3Wwloi4).
Wishing you all the best with next steps Caitlin.
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@DoctorJosh Thank you for everything, Josh! It was an honor to be your advisee 🙂
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Congrats Dr Grasso!!👏👏 @csgrasso10
Josh Bongard@DoctorJosh
Billions of data points. Millions of CPU hours. Thousands of replicates. Hundreds of #xenobots. A dozen family members. Four years. One doctoral candidate. Zero flaws. Congratulations Dr. Caitlin Grasso (@csgrasso10) on your successful defense today. #ProudAdvisor #uvmvermont
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@ThosVarley Thank you, Thomas! Very thankful to have met and learned so much from you on this journey!
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Congratulations to Dr. Grasso (@csgrasso10) - a fantastic dissertation defense, and some really mind-blowing work.
Josh Bongard@DoctorJosh
Billions of data points. Millions of CPU hours. Thousands of replicates. Hundreds of #xenobots. A dozen family members. Four years. One doctoral candidate. Zero flaws. Congratulations Dr. Caitlin Grasso (@csgrasso10) on your successful defense today. #ProudAdvisor #uvmvermont
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@DoctorJosh Thank you for everything, Josh. It has been an honor to be your advisee!
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Billions of data points. Millions of CPU hours. Thousands of replicates. Hundreds of #xenobots. A dozen family members. Four years. One doctoral candidate. Zero flaws.
Congratulations Dr. Caitlin Grasso (@csgrasso10) on your successful defense today.
#ProudAdvisor #uvmvermont
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There is still time to submit to the Virtual Creatures Competition! 🤓
Prize: $250, exclusive branded merchandise, and an exciting opportunity for a job interview with a stealth R&D entity focusing on artificial life and virtual creatures at scale.
sites.google.com/view/vcc-2024
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New preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
"Revealing non-trivial information structures in aneural biological tissues via functional connectivity"
@DougBlackiston, Hannah Dromiack, @csgrasso10, @ThosVarley, Douglas Moore, Krishna Shrinivasan, @spornslab, @DoctorJosh, @Sara_Imari
Connectivity networks of calcium signaling during injury response in Xenopus synthetic morphology
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Looking to hire a postdoc to do AI-designed biology with @drmichaellevin and myself.
Please RT; DM if interested.
Here's what happened the last time we teamed up:
youtube.com/watch?v=8WyWFA…
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The Virtual Creatures Competition has a new judge confirmed: Ricard Solé.
Are you ready to submit? 🤓
#vcc24
sites.google.com/view/vcc-2024
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Four distinguished judges have been confirmed for the Virtual Creatures Competition this year. Do you want them to know your work? Get ready to submit!🤓
sites.google.com/view/vcc-2024
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The next Virtual Creatures Competition will be held at ALife 24 (Copenhagen). Are you up for the challenge? Join the competition and make the new virtual generation begin! Deadline: 10th of June 2024.
sites.google.com/view/vcc-2024
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For 29 years, AI-driven robot design has required weeks on a supercomputer.
Today, in #PNAS, we report how modern AI can design robots in 30 seconds, on a laptop.
Joint work w/ David Matthews, Andrew Spielberg, Daniela Rus, and Sam Kriegman (@Kriegmerica)
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#xenobots are AI-designed organisms.
But what if next-gen biobots can't be designed by AI?
Introducing ADS's: AI-designed swarms!
@PiperRWelch will be presenting this, her new work, at #ALife2023 on Tuesday.
Joint work w/ @csgrasso10, @GizemGumuskaya and @DrMichaelLevin.
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How can #robot swarms work together safely?
@csgrasso10 has found that they need to push against their neighbors in diverse ways, and get pushed back by them in reliable ways, *quickly*.
Come see her describe this at @GeccoConf today.
And vote for this, a best paper contender!
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"Selection for short-term empowerment accelerates the evolution of homeostatic neural cellular automata"
New preprint from PhD student @csgrasso10 & faculty member @DoctorJosh
arxiv.org/abs/2305.15220
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And this very cool preprint from @DoctorJosh and @csgrasso10 :
arxiv.org/abs/2305.15220
"Selection for short-term empowerment accelerates the evolution of homeostatic neural cellular automata"
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On Wed @IEEERoboSoft, come check out our work on
Autotomic robots, which "subtract to adapt".
Joint work led by @RiveSunder; supported by @TheFaboratory members Stephanie Woodman, Melanie Landesberg, and Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio.
#Robosoft2023
youtu.be/rm_N4FvrOwU
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If you missed @MedhaGoyal and @ParsaAtoosa's presentation of our work on
evolved variable stiffness sheets
at #Robosoft2023 today, here's the summary video.
Joint work w/ @TheFaboratory.
youtu.be/wesA0f5ZxH4
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Our 3 @GeccoConf papers were accepted!
First: @csgrasso10 shows that cells struggle to grow to a target shape (green) if they are evolved to do only that (top), compared to cells also evolved to wrestle their neighbors into submission *quickly* (bottom).
youtu.be/yFIE8reYBpc
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