Antonis Antoniades

While studying Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, I became interested in the connection between biological and artificial intelligence, and in particular how they could interact across multiple levels of abstraction. My research led me to pursue a PhD in Computer Science at UCSB, co-advised by Dr. William Wang (CS, UCSB NLP Group) and Spencer Smith (SLAB Neuroscience & Neuroengineering Lab).

My current research focuses are 1) Building LLM-equivalent models of the brain, and using these models to understand the brain and build better AI. 2) Understand and formalize the inner workings of LLMs.

In terms of industry, I particularly enjoyed my internship at Leela AI, working on multi-agent reinforcement learning. I also lead the development of Calibrex, a product aiming to democratize data-driven resistance training.

Another big part of who I am is a guitar player 🎸 - which is probably what I am most talented at. Some of my other interests include swimming, surfing, gaming, photography, reading, meditation and chess.