Nina Miolane

Biography
Nina Miolane is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC Santa Barbara and Director of the Geometric Intelligence Lab. She also serves as Director of AI for the Ann S. Bowers Women’s Brain Health Initiative and Director of the REAL AI For Science Initiative. Her research unites mathematics, artificial intelligence, and neuroscience to uncover the geometry of intelligence—the mathematical laws by which brains and machines organize, transform, and adapt information. Dr. Miolane’s work has been recognized with the NSF CAREER Award, the Hellman Fellowship, the UC Regents’ Junior Faculty Award, and the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Award. She is a Public Voices Fellow with the OpEd Project, advocating for responsible AI for science. Her perspectives and research have been featured in leading media outlets worldwide.

Research
The human brain and artificial intelligence systems face a common challenge: how to represent and adapt information efficiently in an ever-changing world. Dr. Miolane’s research bridges these two frontiers through a unified mathematical framework she calls geometric intelligence. Just as physics revealed the symmetries underlying the laws of nature, her work shows that both biological and artificial intelligence are governed by shared geometric principles. By mapping these principles, her team develops new AI methods that achieve higher accuracy and faster learning from limited or complex data.