I also wrote a blog post reflecting on why this project started, how it evolved, and why I believe we often underestimate the power of inspiration.

✍️ Blog: bkhmsi.medium.com/egyptian-res...

If this helps even one person see what’s possible, it’s worth it.

We also added a statistics page visualizing key aspects of the community: academia vs. industry, research areas, positions, etc.

Webpage: egyptians-in-cs.github.io#/en/stats

The website now has much better filtering by subfield, making it easier to explore different areas of Computer Science and discover researchers working on specific topics.

One of the most powerful additions: an interactive map showing where Egyptian researchers are around the world 🌍

It highlights the global Egyptian diaspora, and how widely Egyptian researchers are contributing across the world.

The website now features 262 Egyptian researchers across all of Computer Science — from systems and theory to AI, security, HCI, and more.

What started as a short list became a much broader story about visibility and representation.

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🤝 Re-Align 2026 is made possible by an interdisciplinary team of co-organizers:

@bkhmsi.bsky.social, Brian Cheung, @dotadotadota.bsky.social, @eringrant.me, Stephanie Fu, @kushinm.bsky.social, @sucholutsky.bsky.social, and @siddsuresh97.bsky.social!

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🌟 Joining us at Re-Align 2026 is a fantastic lineup of invited speakers covering ML, neuroscience, and cognitive science:

David Bau, Arturo Deza, @judithfan.bsky.social, @alonaf.bsky.social, @phillipisola.bsky.social, and Danielle Perszyk!

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Building on last year’s hackathon, we’re launching a persistent shared-task challenge to support transparent and reproducible representational alignment research.

⭐ Stay in the loop:
GitHub: github.com/representational-alignment/challenge
Form: forms.gle/EUVCyE9gykQA...

📅 Feb 26, 2026 (AoE)

You can learn more about our work here: language-to-cognition.epfl.ch

Thanks to all my co-authors @gretatuckute.bsky.social, @davidtyt.bsky.social, @neurotaha.bsky.social and my advisors @abosselut.bsky.social and @mschrimpf.bsky.social!

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🙏 Huge thanks to my incredible co-authors @cndesabbata.bsky.social, @gretatuckute.bsky.social, @eric-zemingchen.bsky.social

and my advisors @mschrimpf.bsky.social and @abosselut.bsky.social!

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🔗 Explore MiCRo:

🌐 Website: cognitive-reasoners.epfl.ch
📄 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2506.13331
🤗 HF Space (interactive): huggingface.co/spaces/bkhmsi/cognitive-reasoners
🧠 HF Models: huggingface.co/collections/bkhmsi/mixture-of-cognitive-reasoners-684709a0f9cdd7fa180f6678

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We now have a collection of 10 MiCRo models on HF that you can try out yourself!

🧠 HF Models: huggingface.co/collections/bkhmsi/mixture-of-cognitive-reasoners-684709a0f9cdd7fa180f6678

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We built an interactive HF Space where you can see how MiCRo routes tokens across specialized experts for any prompt, and even toggle experts on/off to see how behavior changes.

🤗 Try it here: huggingface.co/spaces/bkhms...
(Check the example prompts to get started!)

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We also wondered: if neuroscientists use functional localizers to map networks in the brain, could we do the same for MiCRo’s experts?

The answer: yes! The very same localizers successfully recovered the corresponding expert modules in our models!

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One result I was particularly excited about is the emergent hierarchy we found across MiCRo layers:

🔺Earlier layers route tokens to Language experts.
🔻Deeper layers shift toward domain-relevant experts.

This emergent hierarchy mirrors patterns observed in the human brain 🧠