Christian Shewmake
I'm a Ph.D candidate at UC Berkeley in the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience + Vision Science Group. I work with Bruno Olshausen at UC Berkeley and Nina Miolane in the BioShape Lab at UC Santa Barbara.
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I think about symmetry and geometry in neural representations for brains and machines
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Join our community of neuroscientists and geometers at NeurReps.
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Publications
GSI 2023 | Group Equivariant Sparse Coding. Shewmake, Miolane, Olshausen
ICLR 2022 | Bispectral Neural Networks. Sanborn, Shewmake, Olshausen, Hillar
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PMLR 2022 | NeurIPS Workshop: Symmetry & Geometry in Neural Representations. Sanborn, Shewmake, Azeglio, Di Bernardo, Miolane
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ICLR 2022 | Challenge for Computational Geometry and Topology: Design and Results. Myers, Utpala, Talbar, Sanborn, Shewmake, et al.
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JMLR 2020 | Geomstats: A Python Package for Riemannian Geometry in Machine Learning. Miolane, Guigui, Le Brigant, Shewmake, et al.
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SciPy 2020 | Introduction to Geometric Learning in Python with Geomstats. Miolane, Guigui, Zaatiti, Shewmake, Hatem Hajri, et al.
Community Organizing
2024 | Organizer, BANFF Workshop on Symmetry and Geometry in Neural Representations, Canada
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2023 | Organizer, Workshop on Symmetry and Geometry in Neural Representations, NeurIPS 2023
2022 | Organizer, Workshop on Symmetry and Geometry in Neural Representations, NeurIPS 2022
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2022 | Co-organizer, Bay Area Vision Day 2022 at UC Berkeley
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2020 | Organizer, Lie Theory and Differential Geometry working group, Global via Zoom & Notion
Talks and Conferences
2023 | Oral Pres., Group Equivariant Sparse Coding. Neurogeometry session, Geometric Science of Information Conference
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2023 | Invited Speaker, Bernstein Computational Neuroscience Conference, Berlin
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2023 | Invited Speaker, Bispectral Neural Networks, Flatiron Institute CCN, NYC
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2022 | Invited Speaker, Learning Group Structure from Data, 3rd International Symposium on the Mathematics of Neuroscience, Greece
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2022 | Oxyopia Seminar, UC Berkeley Vision Group
Open Source Repositories
2022 - present | Organizer, The sparsecoding Library
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2020 - present | Contributor, The geomstats library