Large language models can do jaw-dropping things. But nobody knows exactly why.
MIT Technology Review || An interview with TILOS Foundations team member Mikhail (Misha) Belkin about one of the biggest scientific puzzles of our time.
UCSD professor speaks on autonomous vehicles for micro-mobility
Notre Dame Observer || Professor Henrik Christensen speaks to the challenges and benefits of using automated vehicles for trips of short to moderate distance (zero to five miles), which account for a staggering 60% of all travel in the United States.
The TILOS AI Institute: Integrating optimization and AI for chip design, networks, and robotics
AI Magazine || Optimization is a universal quest, reflecting the basic human need todo better. Improved optimizations of energy-efficiency, safety, robustness, and other criteria in engineered systems would bring incalculable societal benefits. But, fundamental challenges of scale and complexity keep many such real-world optimization needs beyond reach. TILOS aims to overcome these challenges in three […]
Redefining Math: National University Introduces Bachelor of Science Degree in Mathematics with Data Analytics & Teaching Focus
National University News || Bridging mathematics and technology: National University’s mathematics department incorporates data science courses developed through TILOS into an updated Bachelor of Science degree program.
How symmetry can come to the aid of machine learning
MIT News || Exploiting the symmetry within datasets, MIT researchers show, can decrease the amount of data needed for training neural networks.
Congratulations to TILOS member Misha Belkin for being selected as a 2023 Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery
Professor Belkin has been selected for contributions to modern machine learning theory and algorithms.
How an emerging economy is fueling an academic renaissance
University Business || “The CHIPS ACT [is] a specific example of how we want to retake high-tech manufacturing and put it on American shores so that American workers benefit,” says Jodi Reeves, chair of National University’s Department of Data Science & Analytics. “That’s something that all educational institutions want to support.”
Texas ECE Team Wins IEEE MLCAD Contest
UT Austin ECE News || A group of Electric and Computer Engineering PhD students supervised by Chips team member David Z. Pan won first place in the 2023 ACM/IEEE Workshop on Machine Learning for CAD (MLCAD) FPGA Macro Placement Contest. Congratulations to Zhili Xiong, Rachel Selina Rajarathnam, Zhi-Xing Jiang, and Hanqing Zhu!
TILOS member Misha Belkin named editor-in-chief of SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science
As of January 2024, TILOS Foundations team member Misha Belkin is the editor-in-chief of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Journal on Mathematics of Data Science (SIMODS), a leading journal on the foundations of data science.
From Troops to Tech Leaders: National University Paves the Way for Service Members to Transition into AI and Data Science Careers
Yahoo Finance || With prestigious National Science Foundation grant, Veteran-founded National University announces new bachelor’s degree helping active-duty military and Veterans up- and reskill for careers in data science and AI.