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On Agents and Agency

A choreography of hands.

Plum Festival

Kairakuen, Mito. February 2026.

Fault Tolerance Exhibition

An exhibition exploring failures in software, hardware and wetware.

Six safety conditions for upcoming laws

Nineteen countries signed two AI statements that pull in opposite directions, so signatures alone bind little. Laws on AI and data centres are being written this winter in Singapore, Japan, Korea, Australia and the EU. Six shared conditions in those laws would bind far more than any declaration.

How fast can atoms keep up?

AI grows from two ingredients: better ideas and new physical things such as chips, power and robots. Slide between them to see how fast AI could grow, who holds leverage from mines to models, and what a lead is worth.

Designing Immune Receptors

The surfaces of white blood cells are covered in receptors that act as three-dimensional puzzle pieces that only match proteins that are not native to the body.

Brutalism and Pencil Shaders

A shape suggested by pencil marks. An interactive study of gesture, selective detail, and graphite.

Exploring High-dimensional Point Clouds

An app to explore high-dimensional point clouds.

Interactive Dynamical Systems

Using interactive features in Julia and WebGL to explore qualitative behaviours in dynamical systems.

Papers

Caballero-Mancebo, S., Shinde, R., Bolger-Munro, M., Peruzzo, M., Szep, G., Steccari, I., Labrousse-Arias, D., Zheden, V., Merrin, J., Callan-Jones, A. (2024). Friction forces determine cytoplasmic reorganization and shape changes of ascidian oocytes upon fertilization . Nature Physics, 1-12.
Coppard, V., Szep, G., Georgieva, Z., Howlett, S., Jarvis, L., Rainbow, D., Suchanek, O., Needham, E., Mousa, H., Menon, D. (2024). FlowAtlas.jl: an interactive tool bridging FlowJo with computational tools in Julia . Frontiers in Immunology, 15, 1664-3224.
Cornwall, L., Szep, G., Day, J., Krishnan, S., Carter, D., Blundell, J., Wollman, L., Dalchau, N., Sim, A. (2023). Fine-tuned protein language models capture T cell receptor stochasticity . NeurIPS 2023 Generative AI and Biology (GenBio) Workshop.
Trioni, A., Peruzzo, M., Hassani Bijarbooneh, F., Szep, G., Redchenko, E., Zemlicka, M., Fink, J. (2022). Geometric Superinductance Qubits: Controlling Phase Delocalization across a Single Josephson Junction . APS March Meeting Abstracts, M41.011.
Szep, G. (2022). Inferring Bifurcations between Phenotypes . PhD Thesis.
Peruzzo, M., Hassani, F., Szep, G., Trioni, A., Redchenko, E., Zemlička, M., Fink, J. (2021). Geometric superinductance qubits: Controlling phase delocalization across a single Josephson junction . PRX Quantum, 2(4), 040341.
Szep, G., Dalchau, N., Csikász-Nagy, A. (2021). Parameter inference with bifurcation diagrams . Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 34, 5620-5630.
Grant, P., Szep, G., Patange, O., Halatek, J., Coppard, V., Csikász-Nagy, A., Haseloff, J., Locke, J., Dalchau, N., Phillips, A. (2020). Interpretation of morphogen gradients by a synthetic bistable circuit . Nature communications, 11(1), 5545.
Dalchau, N., Szép, G., Hernansaiz-Ballesteros, R., Barnes, C., Cardelli, L., Phillips, A., Csikász-Nagy, A. (2018). Computing with biological switches and clocks . Natural computing, 17(4), 761-779.
Mueller, J., Szep, G., Nemethova, M., De Vries, I., Lieber, A., Winkler, C., Kruse, K., Small, J., Schmeiser, C., Keren, K. (2017). Load adaptation of lamellipodial actin networks . Cell, 171(1), 188-200.e16.
Szep, G. (2015). Angular dependence of molecular current-voltage characteristics . MSci Thesis.