TILOS Members and Research in the News

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...

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...

UC San Diego Today || Dirty, dull and dangerous: these are the types of jobs most fit for robotization. Yet, equipping robots to navigate dynamic environments and perform complex tasks is a tall order — even more so in the construction industry. University of California San Diego Electrical and Computer...

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 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...

The inaugural Curiosity Ignited academic symposium explored topics of AI and its connection to interdisciplinary research at UC San Diego. TILOS co-PI and Networks team co-lead Tara Javidi explained that much of her work looks at how scientific discovery can be done faster and at scale, “adding finesse to historic...

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...

The seventeen awardees were recognized on November 6 during a ceremony with Yale President Maurie McInnis, Provost Scott Strobel, Vice Provost for Research Michael Crair, and the Deans of the schools of Medicine, Engineering, Environment, Public Health, Law, and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...

Forty-one mathematical scientists from around the world have been named Fellows of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) for 2025. Recognized by their peers, AMS members designated as Fellows of the AMS have made outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition, advancement, communication, and utilization of mathematics...

UC San Diego Today || The Revelle Medal is a prestigious award recognizing sustained, distinguished and extraordinary service to campus...

AsiaTechDaily || An interview with TILOS Robotics team member Hao Su, cofounder and chief technology officer of Hillbot AI and associate professor of Computer Science and Engineering at UC San Diego...

Within its new Responsible Innovation initiative, researchers at Penn Engineering discovered that certain features of AI-governed robots carry security vulnerabilities and weaknesses that were previously unidentified and unknown...

UC San Diego Today || The Foundations and Realization of Open, Accessible Design (OpenROAD) project, lead by TILOS Chips team member and distinguished professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering Dr. Andrew B. Kahng, democratizes silicon innovation for both students and chip designers...

UC San Diego Today || From better algorithms for self-driving vehicles, to better solutions for robotics surgery, and better ways for robots to manipulate objects, researchers at UC San Diego are presenting their work at the IROS 2024 conference October 14 to 18 in Abu Dhabi...

The Robot Report || Dr. Henrik Christensen, main editor of the U.S. robotics roadmap, discusses the intersection of technology and federal policy, emphasizing the need for more attention and funding for the sector. He discusses the challenges of reshoring manufacturing, the implications of the current presidential campaigns on robotics, and the...

New Scientist || Andrew Kahng ran a public benchmarking effort that tried to replicate Google’s AI method and found it did not consistently outperform a human expert or conventional computer algorithms...

UC San Diego Today || Researchers discuss the link between artificial intelligence and robotics at the San Diego Robotics Forum...

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Yale Daily News || This commitment is in response to the recommendations of the Report of the Yale Task Force on Artificial Intelligence, a set of recommendations for coordinated action and University-wide artificial intelligence investments developed by a team of faculty members who already use AI in their departments...

UC San Diego Today || “Through expressive and more human-like body motions, we aim to build trust and showcase the potential for robots to co-exist in harmony with humans,” said Xiaolong Wang, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of...

San Diego State University News || In collaboration with the NSF Institute for Learning-enabled Optimization at Scale, the project will focus on diversity within the AI research community...

The U.S. National Science Foundation is excited to announce a new round of ExpandAI awards dedicated to fostering diversity and inclusion within the artificial intelligence research community. “NSF Expanding AI Capacity in San Diego: A Strategic Collaboration between San Diego State University and TILOS AI Institute” aims to expand the...

The Robot Report || The quadrennial set of recommendations is produced and sponsored by institutions led by the University of California, San Diego. The authors sent the latest edition to presidential campaigns, the AI Caucus in Congress, and the investment community, noted Henrik I. Christensen, main editor of the roadmap...

Robohub || TILOS Robotics team members Henrik Christensen, Hao Su, and Xiaolong Wang, and graduate student Nicklas Hansen are members of the Open X-Embodiment Collaboration...

TILOS Foundations team members Stefanie Jegelka and Suvrit Sra were honored with Germany’s most highly endowed research award...

Congratulations to TILOS Networks team member Shirin S. S. Bidokhti and Foundations team member Hamed Hassani, both of University of Pennsylvania, whose paper received the 2023 IEEE Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award...

The IEEE International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM), is a premier conference in field-programmable gate array (FPGA) research, including computer-aided design (CAD) and architecture. Zhili Xiong and Rachel Selina Rajarathnam work with TILOS Chips team co-lead David Pan at UT Austin...

Zhishang Luo and fellow graduate student Jesse He, both of the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute at UC San Diego, have been awarded a 2024 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship for their project Explainable Graph Learning for Property Prediction on Netlist Representations...

Professor Chung Graham joins a body of 2,617 active scientists who were elected by their peers to membership in the National Academy of Sciences for outstanding contributions to research...

Quanta Magazine || By apparently overtraining them, researchers have seen neural networks discover novel solutions to problems...

Yale News || TILOS Foundations team member Amin Karbasi and postdoctoral scholar Insu Han received a 2024 Roberts Innovation Fund Award for their research on making AI more powerful and cost effective...

AIthority || Considered the “black box” of machine learning, AI neural networks can expand the range of innovations and applications in different areas. AGOP is a unifying mathematical mechanism that establishes the core fundamentals explaining how neural networks learn from general machine learning models...

UC San Diego Today || The insights, published in the journal Science, can also be used to make other types of machine learning architectures more effective...

Science || Work by TILOS Foundations team member Mikahil Belkin and TILOS graduate students presents a unifying mathematical mechanism called Average Gradient Outer Product (AGOP) that characterizes feature learning in neural networks...

MIT Technology Review || An interview with TILOS Foundations team member Mikhail (Misha) Belkin about one of the biggest scientific puzzles of our time...

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...

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...

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...

MIT News || Exploiting the symmetry within datasets, MIT researchers show, can decrease the amount of data needed for training neural networks...

Professor Belkin has been selected for contributions to modern machine learning theory and algorithms...

University Business || “The CHIPS ACT 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...

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...

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...

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...

New Scientist || Generative AI tools such as chatbots may be able to help chip designers generate code and find software bugs...

UC San Diego Today || From the operating room to our homes and streets, robots are becoming increasingly integral to our daily activities. On November 14, 2023 the UC San Diego Contextual Robotics Institute hosted its eighth annual forum, bringing together robotics experts from industry and academia to discuss cutting-edge...

Yale Daily News || Eleven months after ChatGPT’s release, Yale computer science professors discussed the carbon footprint associated with artificial intelligence and how growing industry management might better control its energy use...

UC San Diego Today || Experts from diverse disciplines explored the vast implications of artificial intelligence in a panel discussion moderated by Greg Horowitt, director of innovation design at UC San Diego. Panelists included David Danks, a professor of data science and philosophy at UC San Diego; Yusu Wang, a...