Redwood is delighted to announce the graduation of Sophia Sanborn! Using the language of group theory, Sophia employs computational principles to extract symmetries in signals that are useful for both biological and artificial agents.  Her thesis work, initially with Tom Griffiths and then with Bruno Olshausen in the Redwood Center, describes models that provide mathematically robust invariants via the bispectrum, in particular showing how the group action underlying the bispectrum can be learned from data to produce representations that are invariant to transformations contained in the data.

Sophia has taken a postdoctoral position at the  BioShape Lab at UCSB under Nina Miolane.  Congratulations Sophia!