2025 AAAS Fellows at UC San Diego
TILOS Chips team co-lead Farinaz Koushanfar is one of eight UC San Diego faculty elected 2025 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Congratulations to all!
Congratulations to Sean Gao, recipient of a Best Undergraduate Teacher Award!
TILOS Chips and Foundations team member Sicun (Sean) Gao was honored with a 2024-2025 UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Best Undergraduate Teacher Award.
Congratulations to HDSI’s newest Endowed Chairs!
TILOS Director Yusu Wang, Deputy Director Arya Mazumdar, and Foundations team member Mikhail Belkin are the newest Endowed Chairs in AI and Data Science at UC San Diego’s Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute, the administrative home of TILOS.
Peeking Inside the Secret Lives of AI Chatbots
A team led by Adityanarayanan Radhakrishnan at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Mikhail Belkin at the University of California San Diego has developed a method to hunt down and manipulate hidden concepts lurking inside large language models — the AI systems behind ChatGPT, Claude and their kin. Their approach, published this week in Science, can […]
Innovative AI Steering Technique Reveals System Vulnerabilities and Paths for Enhancement
In a pioneering breakthrough for artificial intelligence research, a team of scientists has unveiled a novel technique to precisely steer the output of large language models (LLMs) by manipulating specific internal concepts encoded within these models. This innovative approach promises significant advancements in making LLMs more reliable, efficient, and adaptable, while simultaneously shedding light on […]
A New Method to Steer AI Output Uncovers Vulnerabilities and Potential Improvements
A team of researchers has found a way to steer the output of large language models by manipulating specific concepts inside these models. The new method could lead to more reliable, more efficient, and less computationally expensive training of LLMs. But it also exposes potential vulnerabilities.
Is Artificial General Intelligence Here?
Will artificial intelligence ever be able to reason, learn and solve problems at levels comparable to humans? Four experts at the University of California San Diego believe the answer is yes, and that such artificial general intelligence has already arrived.
Congratulations to Nisheeth Vishnoi for his election to the 2026 Class of IEEE Fellows!
The 2026 IEEE Fellows Class acknowledges Vishnoi “for contributions to algorithms, optimization, and fairness in decision-making.”