Professor of Applied Physics at Stanford | Venture Partner a16z | Research in AI, Neuroscience, Physicshttps://bsky.app/profile/suryaganguli.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/suryaganguli.bsky.social/post/3mmsitcmco22ehttps://www.amacad.org/publication/daedalus/toward-science-of-intelligence-unifying-physics-neuroscience-ai my new article in the American academy of arts and sciences journal Daedalus. Part of a special issue in AI+Science lead by James Manyika.27 May 2026 02:52 +0000at://did:plc:yjef3h4cldrkgvyunjeeccwt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmsitcmco22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/suryaganguli.bsky.social/post/3mbottwppi22hNew Year’s resolution: more personal coding projects this year. Just finished pretraining and instruction fine tuning my own GPT2 scale LLM from scratch in PyTorch. Was so much fun!05 Jan 2026 16:21 +0000at://did:plc:yjef3h4cldrkgvyunjeeccwt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbottwppi22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/suryaganguli.bsky.social/post/3lyxrxsv4a22iOur new paper "High-capacity associative memory in a quantum-optical spin glass." Achieves 7-fold increased capacity thru a quantum optical analog of short term plasticity from neuroscience. Atoms (neurons) couple to motion and photons (synapses)! arxiv.org/abs/2509.1220216 Sep 2025 16:55 +0000at://did:plc:yjef3h4cldrkgvyunjeeccwt/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyxrxsv4a22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/suryaganguli.bsky.social/post/3lxsgynbx322dA nice starter pack of researchers in the @simonsfoundation.org Collaboration on the Global Brain go.bsky.app/66dLpPs [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Sep 2025 20:30 +0000at://did:plc:yjef3h4cldrkgvyunjeeccwt/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxsgynbx322dhttps://bsky.app/profile/suryaganguli.bsky.social/post/3lwoxger3nc2cVery excited to lead this new @simonsfoundation.org collaboration on the physics of learning and neural computation to develop powerful tools from physics, math, CS, stats, neuro and more to elucidate the scientific principles underlying AI. See our website for more: www.physicsoflearning.org [contains quote post or other embedded content]18 Aug 2025 17:48 +0000at://did:plc:yjef3h4cldrkgvyunjeeccwt/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwoxger3nc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/suryaganguli.bsky.social/post/3lstrjsz7b22tA great @quantamagazine.bsky.social article on our theory of creativity in convolutional diffusion models lead by @masonkamb.bsky.social See also our paper with new results in version 2: arxiv.org/abs/2412.20292 to be presented as an oral at @icmlconf.bsky.social #icml25 [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Jun 2025 18:05 +0000at://did:plc:yjef3h4cldrkgvyunjeeccwt/app.bsky.feed.post/3lstrjsz7b22thttps://bsky.app/profile/suryaganguli.bsky.social/post/3lsaie3bq422rWow - Bengali political ad in the US! I believe this is a first. খুব ভালো [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Jun 2025 02:00 +0000at://did:plc:yjef3h4cldrkgvyunjeeccwt/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsaie3bq422rhttps://bsky.app/profile/suryaganguli.bsky.social/post/3lrt2jrz5m22pThe best part of this job is seeing students graduate and launch their careers! Congrats to Feng Chen, Atsushi Yamamura, Tamra Nebabu, Linnie Wharton and Daniel Kunin. They are all going on to top positions across artificial intelligence, medicine, and physics. Proud of you!17 Jun 2025 17:48 +0000at://did:plc:yjef3h4cldrkgvyunjeeccwt/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrt2jrz5m22phttps://bsky.app/profile/suryaganguli.bsky.social/post/3lr752ylmdk2yHad fun presenting at @kempnerinstitute.bsky.social on Theories of rapid learning, creativity, and reasoning: of mice and machines. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLmK0l5SKm4 Papers: Learning: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08034-3 Creativity: arxiv.org/abs/2412.20292 Math Reasoning: arxiv.org/abs/2502.07154 [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 Jun 2025 19:40 +0000at://did:plc:yjef3h4cldrkgvyunjeeccwt/app.bsky.feed.post/3lr752ylmdk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/suryaganguli.bsky.social/post/3lo7kdn45bs2qMany recent posts on free energy. Here is a summary from my class “Statistical mechanics of learning and computation” on the many relations between free energy, KL divergence, large deviation theory, entropy, Boltzmann distribution, cumulants, Legendre duality, saddle points, fluctuation-response…02 May 2025 19:22 +0000at://did:plc:yjef3h4cldrkgvyunjeeccwt/app.bsky.feed.post/3lo7kdn45bs2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/suryaganguli.bsky.social/post/3llnincptyc2iI signed. Please consider signing. [contains quote post or other embedded content]31 Mar 2025 04:14 +0000at://did:plc:yjef3h4cldrkgvyunjeeccwt/app.bsky.feed.post/3llnincptyc2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/suryaganguli.bsky.social/post/3ll3tz3yaws2rThis might be the most useful thing I have come across in social media - a personalized feed of academic papers filtered by your follower network! Highly recommend. #academicsky [contains quote post or other embedded content]24 Mar 2025 03:49 +0000at://did:plc:yjef3h4cldrkgvyunjeeccwt/app.bsky.feed.post/3ll3tz3yaws2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/suryaganguli.bsky.social/post/3lktgdfxnsc22So nice to be surrounded by >12000 physicists at @apsphysics.bsky.social summit working hard to understand the nature of our universe and build better tech like solar cells and novel quantum materials. Important to remind the public that our living standards depend on this research.20 Mar 2025 19:23 +0000at://did:plc:yjef3h4cldrkgvyunjeeccwt/app.bsky.feed.post/3lktgdfxnsc22https://bsky.app/profile/suryaganguli.bsky.social/post/3lkmrr2uxo225Love this post @michaelnielsen.bsky.social! I may be biased by I like the 2008 version 4 years before where the song is in my native Bengali by the Nobel Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlfKdbWwruY A translation of the song can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiwpsKfFpoU [contains quote post or other embedded content]18 Mar 2025 03:59 +0000at://did:plc:yjef3h4cldrkgvyunjeeccwt/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkmrr2uxo225https://bsky.app/profile/suryaganguli.bsky.social/post/3ljser75ows2rMy talk on “Neuroscience and AI: a symbiosis” @SimonsInstitute I start with a whirlwind history of metaphors for intelligence, spanning Hippocratic hydraulics, Hobbesian clocks, Cartesian dualism to Turing, telegraphs, Hopfield, and deep learning. https://simons.berkeley.edu/talks/surya-ganguli-stanford-university-2025-02-03 [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 Mar 2025 15:57 +0000at://did:plc:yjef3h4cldrkgvyunjeeccwt/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljser75ows2r