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.
“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.
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!
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.
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.
The 2026 IEEE Fellows Class acknowledges Vishnoi “for contributions to algorithms, optimization, and fairness in decision-making.”
Andrew Kahng is part of several major national initiatives that together are transforming how future engineers learn to design and build computer chips. His work is helping UC San Diego become a driving force in the nation’s growing semiconductor innovation ecosystem.
