Recorded Talks from the TILOS HOT-AI Workshop
All presentations from last week’s Horizons for Optimization in AI Workshop are now available to view!
Penn Engineering Faculty Appointed to Endowed Positions
TILOS Networks Team co-lead Alejandro Ribeiro, a professor in the departments of electrical & systems engineering and computer & information science at University of Pennsylvania, has been named the Solomon and Sylvia G. Charp Professor of Electrical and Systems Engineering.
Exploring the Impact of Generative AI on Education, Research and More
TILOS Foundations team member Mikhail (Misha) Belkin is working toward a better understanding of how AI and generative AI models actually work. Belkin gave a talk at UC San Diego’s Generative AI Summit arguing that a method known as recursive feature machines—essentially an algorithm that selects features within neural networks and their training sets—is the […]
Robotics team member Xiaolong Wang receives 2025 Sloan Research Fellowship in Computer Science
Congratulations to the Sloan Research Fellows of 2025, who represent the most promising early-career scientists working today. Their achievements and potential place them among the next generation of scientific leaders in the U.S. and Canada.
Who to Vaccinate First? Penn Engineers Answer a Life-or-Death Question with Network Theory
Engineering and medical researchers at Penn have developed a groundbreaking framework that can determine the best and most computationally optimized distribution strategy for COVID-19 vaccinations in any given community. Published in PLOS One, this study addresses one of the most critical challenges in pandemic response—how to prioritize vaccination efforts in communities with individuals of different […]
Construction robot researchers target dangerous and dirty jobs
Research to remotely pilot robots and improve how the machines model construction environments is well underway at UC San Diego. The team, led by electrical and computer engineering professors Truong Nguyen and Nikolay Atanasov, is looking for ways to integrate robotics into the construction industry and improve the 3D models and mapping they use to […]
TILOS Faculty Affiliate Rose Yu honored with Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers early in their careers. PECASE recognizes scientists and engineers who show exceptional potential for leadership early in their research careers. The award recognizes innovative and far-reaching developments in science and technology, […]
Chips team co-lead Farinaz Koushanfar inducted into National Academy of Inventors Class of 2024
Koushanfar is among the 170 fellows announced by the NAI this year whose innovations are making significant tangible societal and economic impacts today and will well into the future. Election to NAI Fellow is the highest professional distinction awarded solely to academic inventors.
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 […]