A diagram representing the interconnectedness of the various components of TILOS mission

The TILOS mission is to make impossible optimizations possible, at scale and in practice. Our research will pioneer learning-enabled optimizations that transform chip design, robotics, networks and other use domains that are vital to our nation’s health, prosperity and welfare.

TILOS is a National Science Foundation funded National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Institute.

TILOS is a partnership of faculty from University of California, San Diego, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, National University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Texas at Austin, and Yale University. TILOS will pioneer learning-enabled optimizations that transform chip design, robotics, communication networks, and other use domains that are vital to our nation’s health, prosperity and welfare. Foundational research will pursue five main pillars:

  1. Bridging discrete and continuous optimization.
  2. Distributed, parallel, and federated optimization.
  3. Optimization on manifolds.
  4. Dynamic decisions under uncertainty.
  5. Nonconvex optimization in deep learning.

Announcements

TILOS at NeurIPS 2024

TILOS members, postdoctoral scholars, and graduate students will present more than two dozen research results at the Thirty-Eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), December 10-15, 2024 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Robotics team member Xiaolong Wang receives 2024 J. K. Aggarwal Prize

The J. K. Aggarwal Prize is given to a young scientist who has brought substantial contributions to a field that is relevant to the IAPR Community and whose research work has had a major impact on the field. Professor Wang has received the prize for “his groundbreaking contributions to advancing visual representation learning, utilizing self-supervised and attention-based models to establish fundamental frameworks for creating versatile, general-purpose pattern recognition systems.”

Recipients of the Yale Faculty Innovation Awards 2024

Foundations team member Amin Karbasi receives 2024 Yale Faculty Innovation Award

The seventeen awardees were recognized on November 6 during a ceremony with Yale President Maurie McInnis, Provost Scott Strobel, Vice Provost for Research Michael Crair, and the Deans of the schools of Medicine, Engineering, Environment, Public Health, Law, and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

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Statement of Values

  • We are a community of cross-disciplinary scholarship, creativity and curiosity, and value the pursuit of knowledge, the advancement of technology, and professional development.
  • We are a community of integrity and character that values what is honorable and honest addressing real societal needs and grand challenges.
  • We are an inclusive and engaged community of diverse people and perspectives that values and seeks out different viewpoints and styles of thinking.