3 Questions: What is the best path forward for AI in academia?
MIT Statistics and Data Science Center Director and new TILOS team member Alexander (Sasha) Rakhlin shares important considerations for departments and institutions.
Misha Belkin and David Danks named Schmidt Sciences 2026 AI2050 Senior Fellows!
Supported by up to $16 million over three years, the fifth cohort of AI2050 Fellows will address the most important long-term problems in AI which need to be solved for AI to be truly beneficial to society by 2050.
What Should Every Graduate of an Undergraduate AI Program Know?
A new NSF LEVEL UP AI workshop recommendation report titled “Designing AI Curriculum Pathways” and co-authored by TILOS Associate Director for Education Jodi Reeves offers a framework institutions can use to answer a very timely question: What knowledge and skills should form the foundation of an undergraduate AI education?
Congratulations to David Z. Pan, winner of the 2026 UCLA Samueli Award for Professional Achievement in Academia!
The UCLA Samueli School of Engineering Award honors alumni, faculty, students and other engineering leaders for outstanding achievements in their fields.
Who wins from AI if not US hyperscalers?
An interview with TILOS Robotics team co-lead and a distinguished professor of Computer Science and Engineering at UC San Diego.
Congratulations to TILOS Education team member Shatha Jawad!
Dr. Jawad received the 2026 ACBSP Teaching Excellence Award – Region 7 (Baccalaureate/Graduate Degree Category). This award recognizes educators who demonstrate outstanding teaching excellence and a strong commitment to student learning and professional development. Region 7 (Western Council) spans institutions across 13 western states and territories (AK, AZ, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, MP, […]
Congratulations to Yifei Shao, winner of the Best Conference Paper Award at ICRA 2026!
Shao’s paper “SymSkill: Symbol and Skill Co-Invention for Data-Efficient and Reactive Long-Horizon Manipulation” also Best Paper at the CoRL 2025 LEAP Workshop, and Best Paper on Planning and Control at ICRA 2026!
Brain Corp and UC San Diego partner to advance the foundational intelligence layer for physical AI
The research is being led in collaboration with TILOS Robotics team member Dr. Nikolay Atanasov, head of the Existential Robotics Laboratory at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering, whose work focuses on robotic perception, semantic mapping, and autonomous systems.
Brain Corp partners with UC San Diego to help robots operate in complex environments
“Simultaneous localization and mapping, or SLAM, helped move robots beyond fixed industrial settings and into more dynamic environments,” said Dr. Nikolay Atanasov, TILOS Robotics team member and faculty member in the Jacobs School’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC San Diego.
