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Maria A. Zuluaga

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Tenured-track Professor in ML @EURECOM 🇫🇷 | Visiting Senior Lecturer @King's College London 🇬🇧

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Maria A. Zuluaga @marazulv.bsky.social · Dec 4

Really excited to announce that I've been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant #ERCCoG!

In CARAVEL, we will develop AI tools to explore
the uncharted pathways of the brain vessel tree, uncovering new knowledge about the human brain and how it ages (1/n)

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Consolidator Grants: ERC awards €678m in grants to back excellent research across Europe

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded its 2024 Consolidator Grants to 328 researchers across Europe. These grants, totalling €678 million, aim to support outstanding scientists and scholars ...

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Maria A. Zuluaga @marazulv.bsky.social · Aug 27

Thanks @ellis.eu !

ELLIS @ellis.eu · Aug 27

Meet @marazulv.bsky.social, Associate Prof. at EURECOM 🇫🇷 & ELLIS Member, researching AI for health. She recently received an @erc.europa.eu Consolidator Grant to advance her work on the cerebrovascular tree’s role in brain health with novel AI tools.

#WomenInELLIS

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Maria A. Zuluaga @marazulv.bsky.social · Aug 1

On Oct 19th, I’m taking on (hopefully) my first-ever triathlon 💪 in support of breast cancer research — a cause very close to my heart.
Please help me reach my €150 goal. Every euro counts!

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Mon Premier Triathlon contre le Cancer du Sein

Avec 61 000 cas par an et 12 000 décès, le cancer du sein est à la fois le plus fréquent et le plus meurtrier chez la femme en France. 1 femme sur 2 seulement participe au programme de dépistage organ...

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Motonobu Kanagawa @motonobu-kanagawa.bsky.social · Jun 4

Registration for ProbNum 2025, to be held at EURECOM in southern France from 1st to 3rd September, is now open (deadline: 10th August). A tentative schedule and accepted papers are now online.

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ProbNum25

Coming

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CiTIUS @citius.gal · May 23

🧠 ¿Puede la IA ser fiable en medicina?

El 28/05 a las 13:00, la profesora María A. Zuluaga (EURECOM) visita el CiTIUS con una charla sobre #IA aplicada a salud, dentro del programa de actividades de la Cátedra USC-Plexus

🔗 s.citius.gal/lecturemariazuluaga

#RedeCiGUS #FondosEuropeos

Ciclo de conferencias 'Investigadoras de prestixio' | María A. Zuluaga: 'Avanzando a investigación en saúde e a práctica clínica a través dunha intelixencia artificial confiable'

Mércores, 28 de maio de 2025, de 13:00 a 14:30

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Maria A. Zuluaga @marazulv.bsky.social · May 30

Muchas gracias por la invitación!

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CiTIUS @citius.gal · May 28

🔍 IA fiable en salud, con perspectiva clínica.

Gracias a María A. Zuluaga (@EURECOM) por su brillante charla en el CiTIUS, en el marco de nuestra iniciativa 'Investigadoras de Prestigio' en colaboración con la Cátedra USC–Plexus.

🔗 s.citius.gal/lecturemariazuluaga
#RedeCiGUS #FondosEuropeos

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · May 29

This is what happens when you put internet conspiracy theorists in charge of major government departments.

The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist

The Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.

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Maria A. Zuluaga @marazulv.bsky.social · May 29

This is how a scientific run across Santiago de Compostela after visiting #CiTIUS looks like
Thanks for hosting me!

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SASHIMI Workshop @ MICCAI 2025 @sashimiworkshop.bsky.social · May 20

The quality of medical image synthesis has been greatly advanced with the development of generative modeling. The eminent Paul Thompson @ptenigma.bsky.social has posted an excellent overview and resource on LinkedIn that we certainly endorse. Please check it out!
www.linkedin.com/posts/paul-t...

Learning flow matching and diffusion models for generative AI | Paul Thompson posted on the topic | LinkedIn

🔥 HAVE YOU EVER WANTED to understand flow matching and diffusion models for generative AI, and derive them from first principles? 🔥 🔥 I’ve been out sick for 10 days but after taking steroids (prednis...

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Théo Gnassounou @tgnassou.bsky.social · May 20

Skada Sprint Alert: Contribute to Domain Adaptation in Python

📖 Machine learning models often fail when the data distribution changes between training and testing. That’s where Domain Adaptation comes in — helping models stay reliable across domains.

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Maria A. Zuluaga @marazulv.bsky.social · Apr 1

Phew 😅!

Maria A. Zuluaga @marazulv.bsky.social · Apr 1

It's a lethal weapon all that setup!

Maria A. Zuluaga @marazulv.bsky.social · Apr 1

I had always wished for having MR acquisition facilities in my lab...
Just got a brand new MR-US scanner 😀!

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Maria A. Zuluaga @marazulv.bsky.social · Mar 12

Good morning Lyon! Running ahead Pierre Rouge's PhD defense this afternoon at CREATIS

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ELLIS @ellis.eu · Mar 8

This International Women's Day, we're challenging you to #AccelerateAction to get more women & girls in AI and machine learning.

It's your turn! Reply with a suggestion for action or tag an inspiring female scientist.

#IWD2025 #AccelerateAction #WomenInELLIS

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Nature @nature.com · Mar 6

In an unprecedented move, the US National Institutes of Health has begun mass terminations of research grants that fund active scientific projects because they no longer meet “agency priorities”.

https://go.nature.com/4bpG2It

Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants

Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.

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Maria A. Zuluaga @marazulv.bsky.social · Feb 26

Only two weeks left to apply.
Ping me if you wish to know more.

Maria A. Zuluaga @marazulv.bsky.social · Jan 29

AI4Health@EURECOM is hiring!
We have a post-doc position to work on the development of advanced AI tools to integrate wearable devices in the assessment and monitoring of individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Apply by March 15/25

More details in the link:
www.eurecom.fr/en/job/ai-to...

AI tools for stress detection from electrophysiological signals collected with wearable devices for ASD monitoring | EURECOM

www.eurecom.fr

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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · Feb 23

As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity.

TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄

NO CHATGPT Or other artificial stupidity: motivation
First, clarity on distinguishing AIs:
Non-generative: grammar aid, translation, dictionary, text-to-audio (e.g. Natural Reader): no problem
As long as you use the appropriate tools (least intensive in data and server energy use).
Why? Because you provide the content. Your brain is doing the most important work
Generative: ChatGPT & Co.
You only supply the prompt, the AI supplies the content.
Why is this delegation of work problematic?
3 domains: ethical, environmental, intellectual engagement.

(Caveat: generative is probably ok for computer programming, where it can be useful and save time. Not relevant to this class.)

1) AI and ethics
Mass theft of all and everything
«learning» on books, articles, blogs, social media, images, music, cultural production, without permission of authors/creators, and leading to their mass joblessness. Profits are not reditributed to originators.
Permanent destruction of the mental health of underpaid precarious tech workers in the Global South (Kenya, Philippines …):
«correction» to avoid production of violent and pedophile contents etc, tech workers are obliged to watch and correct super violent contents for days on end, leading to extreme psychological suffering and trauma, from which recovery is doubtful. No or little compensation (certainly not at the level of the suffering inflicted).
In short, an industry built on theft of real human creation and sacrifice of real human health, profiting a few megafortunes.

2) AI and (un)sustainability

Massive consumption of electricity, water, server capacity for generative AI.
Outcome: keep fossil fuel companies in business, using up new renewable capacity, without any satisfaction of basic human needs.
Massive misappropriation of the finance necessary for climate and ecological action (renewable generation, efficiency and retrofit for buildings, public transit, infrastructures for cycling etc) towards AI industry.
Overall: undermine climate action, reinforce fossil industry, waste resources necessary for human development.

3) AI and intellectual engagement

First, what learning is (or should be) about:
The goal should not (only) be the reproduction of «correct» knowledge,
But mainly personal engagement and experience of thinking about topics of interest. Personal engagement = using one’s own brain.
The most important activity for learning and intellectual engagement is the experience of making one’s own mistakes, by trial and error, corrections based on new ideas, starting over again. Learning to recognise nuances, knowledge gaps, better explanations
This kind of learning is possible only through using your own brain, not AI.
Also, Ais are not «intelligent». At all.
They simply reproduce pre-existing patterns. They «bullshit», invent false references, false facts, false data, simply because those sound plausible. VERY DANGEROUS.
If you learn how to NOT use AI, and how to research facts and data on your own, this will serve you and your communities for the rest of your life.

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wellingmax.bsky.social @wellingmax.bsky.social · Feb 12

Finally European investment in AI!

ELLIS @ellis.eu · Feb 11

ELLIS welcomes the InvestAI initiative as a strong step toward strengthening AI research, computing infrastructure, and talent development in Europe.

Read our full statement: ellis.eu/news/ellis-w...

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ELLIS Welcomes InvestAI Initiative as a Strong Endorsement of Its Mission

The ELLIS mission is to create a diverse European network that promotes research excellence and advances breakthroughs in AI, as well as a pan-European PhD program to educate the next generation of AI...

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Maria A. Zuluaga @marazulv.bsky.social · Jan 29

AI tools for stress detection from electrophysiological signals collected with wearable devices for ASD monitoring | EURECOM

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Simon J.D. Prince @simonprinceai.bsky.social · Jan 23

Learning or teaching from my book (udlbook.com)? I have now added the complete bibfile (which is accurate and took ages to make) and the LaTeX for all of the equations (helpful if you are making slides).

Understanding Deep Learning

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